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The Pythagoras Theorem is defined by Google definitions as the formula used to find an unknown length of a right angled triangle, the two sides that meet to form the right angle equal to the long side connecting them. One may wonder how the Pythagoras Theorem came to be, In 500 BC a Scholar by the name of Pythagoras studying the ratios between the different lengths of the sides of a triangle. When he began to take a closer look at his calculations he came to the conclusion that the two shorter sides of the triangles squared and added together gave you the length of the longest side. From this he created the equation a2+b2=c2, c of course being the hypotenuse, a and b being the two shorter sides.

The Pythagorean theorem is useful in many situations where you need to find one or more lengths of a right angle triangle. Pythagorean Theorem can be used to find the length of the corner of a ceiling or floor while laying tiles. It does come to use in the real world as well as being used in mathematical equations.

Once you know the fundamentals of Pythagorean Theorem you can broaden the rage of questions that you do and you can solve much more difficult questions with multiple steps involved. A couple examples of other things you could use the thermo for would be Euclidean distance in various coordinate systems, Pythagorean trigonometric identities, along with complex arithmetic and various other questions.

Example:

c2= a2+b2 c2= 62 + 82 c2 = 36 + 64 c2 = 100 c = 10