And it's as simple as that.

excellent, once you are exposed to the reasoning like this, it helps build the chain of trust people use in the scientific method -- reproducibility

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it's almost like the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

that was the worst wheel of fortune episode ever

So your saying the key to science is fertility!?

Simple but extremely important discovery.

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Math.

I have to pee now.

I would love to have one of these to hang on the wall. Maybe a smaller version. In any case it's brilliant. Maybe I'll make a Flash version that uses a simple particle system to show the same thing.