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"We all know that the Scarecrow went to see the Wizard to ask him for some brains in MGM's 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz. After having made the long and perilous journey, the great and powerful Oz bestowed upon the Scarecrow a diploma with an honorary degree of Th.D., i.e. Doctor of Thinkology. Once the Scarecrow received his "brains" he immediately tried to impress his friends by reciting the following mathematical equation, "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side." This sounds very similar to the "Pythagorean Theorem" in mathematics. However, one has to wonder just how smart the Scarecrow really became because the mathematical equation that he recited is incorrect." "Now, if the Scarecrow were really that smart, he should have said: "The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the remaining two sides." This is the correct wording for the "Pythagorean Theorem"." Source and further information: http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/6396/ozmath.htm
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