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pythagorate

to cut across the diagonal rather than follow perpendicular sides, saving distance and usually time
Those ugly brown paths are caused by students who pythagorate across the grass.

You'll save twenty miles and half an hour if you pythagorate up the turnpike instead of taking 35 and 75, you cheapskate.
by atds April 25, 2009
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pythagoras

screw this sin, cos, tan crap... pythagoras what did you dooooo
by Doctor James Benson August 4, 2003
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Pythagoras

c. 582-c. 507 B.C.E. A Greek cosmologist who believed that numbers described the true nature of the universe. A very influential teacher, about whom many legend were written and later attatched to Jesus in the New Testament.
It is uncertain why the Pythagorean theorem is so named; it was neither Pythagoras nor his followers who discovered or even proved the rule, nor were they even particularly concerned with it in any way.
by ln(e) October 30, 2003
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pythagoras' threorum

The only thing that you'll remember after four years of high school math.
What is pythagoras' threorum? a^2+b^2=c^2?
by Kockeue838 November 19, 2016
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Pythagoras Switch

A japanese Kids show made popular by it's fansubbing by the acclaimed dattebayo. This show opens and ends with crazy complex "Pythagoras Switches" which usually involve marbles, dominos and tubes. At the end or each of these rube Goldberg inventions the name of the show is revealed followed by children singing "Pitagora Suicchi". Because it's a kids show it tries to teach basic speech skills making it a fun way for the average English speaking japanophile to get a beginners grasp of Japanese. The show has also gained some popularity over you-tube which is filled with people performing the so called "algorithm march" which is usually done by tmen in suits in the middle of the show. They often have accompanyment in the form of soccer teams, and ninjas.
pitagora Suicchi is japanese for Pythagoras Switch
by Deathangel521 November 20, 2006
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pythagoras theorem

Using Pythagoras Theorem, the third side of a right-angled triangle can be calculated when two sides are given.

Suppose A = length of hypotenuse and
B & C = lengths of the sides containing the right angle

Then (A^2) = (B^2)+(C^2)

Proof:

If a = angle opposite side A ( =90 degrees)

b = angle opposite side B

c = angle opposite side C

then B = A sin a and C = A cos a

Squaring and adding,we get the result.
Pythagorean triplets:

3,4,5

5,12,13

8,15,17
by Jai Shri Ram May 22, 2005
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Pythagoras Position

The Pythagoras position is where 3 people engage in oral and traditional sex while in the shape of a right triangle. One person lays on the ground and fucks one person and eats our the other person. The people on the top of the position make out. This produces a right triangle shape, hence the name, Pythagoras Position.
*note: requires one male
*note: can be done in both a vertical or horizontal position
Jane, Beth, and Billy created Pythagoras Position last night.
by Pythagoras is real May 9, 2014
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