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[–] Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pythagoras drowning Hippasus was going against Archimedes' will.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

reductio ad mortem

[–] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yes and have you also considered that beans are evil

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

1.414 is pretty close

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

His final words: Dude, don't throw me off the boat, you're being irration-AAAAAAAAAAAA

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Aristotle said a whole lot of dumb things but proving square root of 2 is irrational was its master move. It led to the suicide of a good bunch of pythagoricians.