Pythagorean Theorem Day
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My colleague at work tells me it's Pythagorean Theorem Day. Today's date is 8/15/17 or 8² + 15²=17².
Amazing, but I actually have something numismatically related.
The holder tells me the bakery was in Spokane.
Post your right triangle related items ...?
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Cool, lets all celebrate with some
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Acute!
Next Primitive Pythagorean Theorem day on 7/24/25! [edited]
There were once 3 kingdoms that bordered the same lake. In the middle of the lake there was an island, and the 3 kingdoms had been fighting over it for years. No one seemed to be able to keep the upper hand for very long and no one had been victorious. The wars over this little island were very costly, but all 3 kingdoms wanted it because of its great beauty and resources.
Finally, the monarchs agreed to a way to settle the matter permanently. Each would send their knights and squires to the island and they would
fight it out. Whoever’s knights and squires won the day would keep the island forever.
One kingdom sent many knights and each knight had a few squires. The night before the battle, the knights polished their armor while the squires readied the weapons. When the armor was finished, the knights sat around the fire drinking.
The second kingdom sent more knights than the first and each knight had several squires. The night before the battle, the knights drank around the fire while the squires scurried about polishing armor and readying weapons.
The third kingdom only sent one knight and he had only one squire. While the squire polished armor and readied the weapons, the knight hung a single pot from the tallest branch of the tree and tied a rope with a loop at the end from another branch. Then the knight sat by the fire and drank while the squire kept working.
The fateful day came and all the squires came out to the battlefield. (The knights had stayed up too long drinking.) The battle was fierce. In the
end, only the lone squire from the third kingdom was left standing. Proving once again, the age old theorem:
The squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides.
AND.....
A Native American chief has three wives living in three wigwams and one day he offers them new bed covers.
The first asks for a buffalo-skin hide as a cover, and this is duly delivered.
The second wife asks for a bear-skin hide and, although this is more dangerous to catch, one is eventually bought to her.
The third wife is the youngest and prettiest and she asks for a hippopotamus-skin hide as a bed cover.
This proves extremely difficult to find, but eventually she has her wish. Nine months later the first wife gives birth to a boy, the second wife gives birth to a girl, and the third wife has twins – a boy and a girl.
Which goes to prove that the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the squaw on the other two hides.
In PUN we believe!
Cheers, RickO
lame, but cute.
BOOOOOO!!!! Ha ha ha! Nice one! I'm stealing this one!
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Actually, today 12/16/20 also works, since is a multiple of the primitive Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5).
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I needed my math skills for the cut angles on this piece of artwork that is now displayed on our community greenway. Work titled "Infinite Angles".
.Pythagoras Grocery, 326 W. Main Ave., it continued in business from 1937-1960 but at 322 W. Main Ave. (1920-1936 Spokane CD). -- courtesy of All Erickson's Washington State catalog & tokencollector