Do YOU know Pythagoras' Theorem to the fifth decimal place?

If that is what they were asked, without numerical values.....

If they think you can quote a non-numerical, Pure Geometry theorem to even one decimal place, they are lost from the start!

Still, the screen-shot alone reveals the gormless level of the context.......

You and I know why, but for anyone who does not, here it is:

For a right-angled triangle of sides A, B and Hypotenuse H;

H^2 = A^2 + B^2.

- and it works whether all 3 sides are of integer lengths (e.g. 3:4:5) or involve fractions whose decimal places might matter!

@NerdyPotato Yes,I appreciate that, and no, I did not mean you.

I meant whoever set the question in the competition, and quoted as the headline on the video's starting image.

It reads, "You don't know the Pythagoran theorem to the...", presumably aimed at those three contestants.

Maybe it was a trick, to see if they would say that they cannot quote decimal places for a pure theorem containing no numbers.

So I set the show running, to see and hear it collapse into utter nonsense within the first few seconds, by the bloke who seems one of the presenters mis-quoting the value of Pi no-one had asked about!

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{I don't know if your school had this, but our Maths syllabus had a hefty section of Pure Geometry theorems first established by people like Pythagoras, that show the properties of geometrical shapes and lines without defining numerical sizes. Oh - and yes we did learn the main circular formulae, using Pi. )

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I love it when people act smarter than they are and get caught.