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#0, Pythagoras Dissection
Posted by Max on Mar-25-09 at 08:17 PM
How does this ( http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/HingedPythagoras.shtml )

prove the Pythagorean Thm?
Thanks!


#1, RE: Pythagoras Dissection
Posted by alexb on Mar-25-09 at 08:20 PM
In response to message #0
There is a scroller at the bottom of the applet. Moving it makes to hinged triangles rotate. This transforms the white area from a big square (on the hypotenuse) into the union of the squares on the legs, and vice versa.