2 young black girls in New Orleans have proven the Pythagorean Theory which is 2000+ years old and has never been proven by a single mathematician! I don’t think y’all hear me!
— W. E. B. Dembois (@_kerlizzle) March 26, 2023
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As always 
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I've heard this argument once before and a quick google search showed me a similar paper on the possibility of a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem:
https://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2009volume9/FG200925.pdf
In fact, if the following slide is a snippet of their presentation
then it does look awfully similar to a random proof I found within seconds:
https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/Proof100.shtml
Now, do I think their argument is novel? I'm not sure and quite frankly I don't really care, but at least their argument is not complete bullshit and the flaw rather relies on dumb journ*lists trying to make this event bigger than it actually is. Anyways, please pin this comment so people may comment reasonably instead of senselessly bashing these poor girls.
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I think they just used the sine rule to establish the series and claimed that was trigonometry proving pythagoras.
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It's basically nothing of interest whatsoever but it is hilarious further proof that if you just do completely normal uninteresting, functional-but-non-genius maths stuff while black it gets treated like the most important thing in the world. If two white boys did this it wouldn't even be local news, heck it wouldn't even be school-newsletter-worthy
But for journos seeing a black person do anything at all in school blows their minds because libs are fricking racist and treat it like they just saw a dog do a kickflip
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