Are you smarter than a high schooler? Prove Pythagoras right!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wwltv.com/amp/article/news/education/no-east-teens-make-pmathematical-discovery-2000-years-making/289-e89f40cb-85f8-4a55-ae3f-3ec37412d7b8

Incredible!!

So... how did they do it?

Would be interesting to see a good story about whatt they did ,

this link was just a teaser !

but 3 cheers that they figured it out , hopefully they get to name it :)

Beer Baron said:

So... how did they do it?

Hahaha if I knew I guess I'd be the famous one...

I didn't see their presentation and it sounds like they have not published an article in a math journal yet. But I'm interested to find out.

Honestly I'm surprised this thread isn't getting more activity, trig is something that is critical to racecar engineering! Not to mention the zillions of other things it is useful for. 

I read somewhere that they proved it using the law of sines. I gave the problem to my 16yo and she couldn't finish the proof.

https://youtu.be/p6j2nZKwf20

Here's the first explanation I've seen of their proof. So creative!!

In reply to Robbie (Forum Supporter) :

VERY creative.  That's really paying attention in class- as I'm sure they were transitioning between trig and calculus- where they have to learn infinite series.  The big step was to add the longer infinite series triangle and then they used stuff they just learned to put it all together.  It would be interesting to learn how they figured that part out.