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Pythagoras was an ancient Greek mathematician whose theorem was: any right angle triangle, when its hypotenuse is squared, is equal to the sum of its squared sides. discovery of a mathematical formula to relate the sides of a right triangle

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Pythagoras discovered the Pythagorean Theorem.

The Pythagorean Theorem is the basis of trigonometry.

GPS satellites use Pythagoras' ideas to find where people are on Earth with a system called triangulation.

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