YES or NO. It's that simple. What do ya think?

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Ray  Dart Profile
Ray Dart answered

I think that the area of the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the areas of squares created on the other two sides of the same triangle.

I only need to know who invented the word "hypotenuse", I shall have him (or her) ritually immolated.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I was once asked by the editor or a suburban newspaper (which carried my weekly Tall Tales column) if I could do anything to counter the aggravation about how to develop a local site.

So I found a colony of red-spotted hypotenuses on the site. This was the bird, once common across Europe, whose triangular wings had so inspired Pythagoras.

The following week I discovered oil on the site -- a WWII munitions area -- when (a la Jed Clampett) an unexploded shell set off a gusher of oil.

She rang me after that one and said, "I don't know what kind of fools read my paper but the phone hasn't stopped ringing for days."
Ray  Dart
Ray Dart commented
LOL :)
Ray  Dart
Ray Dart commented
Imagination is a dangerous thing.... :)
Aldrich Ames Profile
Aldrich Ames answered

Probably.

Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

Your question brought to mind a remarkable poem by Yevegeny Yevtushenko called The City of Yes and the City of No. He's an amazing poet.

I am like a train  rushing for many years now
between the city of Yes and the city of No.
My nerves are strained  like wires
between the city of No and the city of Yes.

Everything is deadly, everyone frightened, in the city of No...


It's worth clicking the link to read the rest.

The City of Yes and the City of No.

KB Baldwin Profile
KB Baldwin answered

8-Ball sez "Check back later".

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