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Forum Name: Middle school
Topic ID: 35
Message ID: 7
#7, RE: Just a Curious Monkey Question...?
Posted by alexb on Feb-07-01 at 04:51 PM
In response to message #6
>Well, I think that your input
>that you could give me
>on to this question would
>be much greater then any
>ideas that I could
>ever come up with,

Not so, as the last sentence in your message shows very clearly. I can waste plenty of time unless you make some effort at trying to understand both your question and my answer.

> becase
>your page on proofs for
>the Pythagorean Therom is truely
>amazing.

Thank you. But this is irrelevant as you apparently did not get the point.

> Yes, I still
>am wondering why the Pythagorean
>Therom is only true for
>right triangles, becauase I did
>not understand the frst sentece
>of your origional response to
>that question.

The first sentence reads:

Assume a, b, c are the sides of a triangle which is not right, but for which nonetheless a2 + b2 = c2.

Which means, "Assume there is a triangle which is not right but for which the Pythagorean theorem holds nonetheless."

What follows afterwards is a demonstration that that assumption leads to a contradiction.

>Any input
>tht you have would be
>greatly appreciated. Thank you
>:)