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Forum Name: Guest book
Topic ID: 530
Message ID: 1
#1, RE: Problem with the Floor van Lamoen Pythagorean Proof
Posted by alexb on May-02-06 at 02:15 PM
In response to message #0
There have been two typos. Many thanks for bringing this up.

Area(AMB'C') = Area(MAC') + Area(MBC')

should have been

Area(AMB'C') = Area(MAC') + Area(MB'C')

and

Area(AMB'C') = Area(AMB') + Area(ABC')

should have been

Area(AMB'C') = Area(AMB') + Area(AB'C')

Both are fixed now.