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Pythagorean Theorem proof in a 2100 year old Chinese book
- douche 10y agoSo... considerably after Pythagoras died? Roughly in an era where there was considerable trade between the European Mediterranean and India and beyond - to the extent that Pliny, presaging similar arguments about the India and China trade a millennia and a half later, claimed that Rome was beggaring itself importing foreign baubles. Goods and ideas have always flowed back and forth across Eurasia.