• Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about582 b. c.), or his philosophy.The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea ofnumber, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relationsof things. Encyc. Brit.Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the squaredescribed upon the hypothenuse of a plane right-angled triangle isequal to the sum of the squares described upon the other two sides.-- Pythagorean system (Astron.), the commonly received system ofastronomy, first taught by Pythagoras, and afterward revived byCopernicus, whence it is also called the Copernican system.-- Pythagorean letter. See Y.


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  • (v.)(trans.): to use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for an unknown side of a right triangle. Used mostly in nerd circles.

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