So the picture pretty much says it all. If you carve up a square into a bounded square and four equal sized triangles you can see the relations graphically for (a+b)^2, 2ab, and c^2. Those show the Pythagorean theorem.
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So the picture pretty much says it all. If you carve up a square into a bounded square and four equal sized triangles you can see the relations graphically for (a+b)^2, 2ab, and c^2. Those show the Pythagorean theorem. |