However, this in turn means that they were familiar with the Pythagorean Theorem – or, at the very least, with its special case for the diagonal of a square (d= a+ a= 2a) – more than a ...

The evidence was translated from a clay tablet labeled YBC 7289, formed between 1800 and 1600 BC, which uses principles of the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the length of a diagonal inside a ...

Plug that into a handy Pythagorean calculator and you get c, the hypotenuse (or diagonal of the downfield and cross-field distance), being 33.6 yards.

Pythagoras’ theorem can be used to find the diagonal of a rectangle. The width and height of the rectangle become a and b in the formula and c is the diagonal length. a ² + b ² = c ² ...

Jackson says they spent “3-4 hours a day” working on their calculations and discovered a way to prove the theorem using trigonometry, a feat being touted as a mathematic breakthrough.