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hypotenuse

• longest side on a right-angled triangle.

Pythagoras

Pythagoras was a renowned Greek philosopher and
mathematician who lived around 550 BC.
He is famous for proving a theorem about the
hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

EXAMPLES:
hypotenuse


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