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minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·8 months agoI 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!
minus-squareIphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months agoQuick! Change all the textbooks to “clay tablet theorem”!
minus-squaremaniii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoWhy not call it the Summerian Theorem ? Or Arabic/Persian/Philistine Triangulation Theorem ?
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 ?