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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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I took the opposite tack.
You ain't shit, Pythagoras! You just wrote it down, you didn't figure it out, you absolute fucking fraud. We're taking your immortality back!
Quick! Change all the textbooks to “clay tablet theorem”!
Why not call it the Summerian Theorem ? Or Arabic/Persian/Philistine Triangulation Theorem ?