"In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle."

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Source : Euclid, Phillips (1826). “Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid”, p.41

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“I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.”

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