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immad
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Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theore...
You could use it as a starting point to a proof by induction maybe, but it currently only proves one case of the theorem.
tuukkah
on March 5, 2018
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Further, it doesn't prove exact mathematical equality. Depending on the scale of the demonstration and the accuracy of the observations, it demonstrates approximate equality up to a certain precision. (You could also demonstrate π=3.14.)
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