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#0, A better Calculus Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem?
Posted by jmolokach on Sep-29-10 at 02:01 PM
I found the following at http://www.scribd.com/doc/30552/A-Calculus-Proof-of-the-Pythagorean-Theorem

I do not know the author, but it seems to me a strong counterexample to the Pythagorean Proposition:

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