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He discovered how to find the length of the missing side of a right triangle, so if there was a 5 cm line and a 4 cm line he could tell the length of the other line on a triangle. The answer to the 5 cm by 4 cm would be 3 cm. That is his famous 5, 4, 3 triangle.
The formula for it is A squared plus B squared equals C squared.
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What did Pythagoras discover about music?
he played the lyre
How did Pythagoras discover musical intervals?
Cause
Where did Pythagoras discover the Pythagorean theorem?
he dicovered it in greece
What describes Pythagoras' contribution?
Discover of a Mathematical formula to relate the sides of a right triangle.
What did Pythagoras contribute to mathematics?
the pythagorean theorem i would just like to say that he did not discover that, it was found in 800 B.C
What did Pythagoras discover about the stars?
Saturn
What did Pythagoras discover about music?
he played the lyre
How did Pythagoras discover musical intervals?
Cause
Did Pythagoras discover the formula for finding the hypnotenuse of a triangle?
Yes, it's called Pythagoras theorem
Where did Pythagoras discover the Pythagorean theorem?
he dicovered it in greece
Who discover pythagorean thereom?
Could well have been Pythagoras..?
Did Pythagoras discover prime numbers?
No He discovered how to work out the hypotenuse
Who invented the times tables?
Pythagoras. He didint invent them he discover them.
When did Pythagoras discover pythagorean?
some time in the 500's BC.
What did pythgoras discover?
Pythagoras discovered that a scalene triangle is in fact a square
Did Pythagoras discover the formula for finding the hyptenuse of a triangle?
No but traditionally it is accredited to him
What mathematics knowledge did Pythagoras discover?
Pythagoras discovered that for any right angle triangle its hypotenuse when squared is equal to the sum of its squared sides.
