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[QUOTE]Originally posted by fawal: [QB] [QUOTE]Clearly you were not being honest with your own sources which is why for instance you no longer cite Robins and Shute in your posts about the "Pythagorean Theorem" anymore but source wiki and a chat room instead. LOL. Personally I think he did exist but like all legends what is attributed to him is perhaps mostly fable. Now I can understand you want to run to other sources after your "actual professionals" undermine you [serve you right for not reading your sources] but everything means everything. [/QUOTE]Huh? :confused: First of all, in what way exactly did I stop citing Robins and Shute? In what way exactly were they "undermining" my position that the Egyptians did not discover the Pythagorean Theorem? You do realize that that Robins and Shute article that I linked to deals primarily with whether the irrational numbers Pi and Phi were employed in pyramid design and concludes that they weren't, right (they only touched briefly on Pythagorean Triples)? My main source for the statement that there is no evidence to substantiate the idea that the Egyptians ever discovered the Pythagorean Theorem was Eli Maor's book "The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4000 Year History." The two other links that I provided were "The Myth of Egyptian Pi" and "Irrational Numbers and Pyramids." I provided that first link of the two for the purpose of dispelling the myth that the Greeks "stole" their mathematical knowledge from the Egyptians, and the second one I provided because it dealt tacitly with the issue of the Egyptians and the Pythagorean Theorem. That is why I told you that you were obviously not reading that Robins and Shute article properly. Secondly, I linked to wikipedia in response to your completely false claim that there was no evidence that Pythagoras even existed - it had absolutely nothing to do with the Pythagorean Theorem. If you look carefully, you will see that that "chat room" that I linked to comes off the exact same site as the Robins and Shute article - that particular thread deals with this [URL=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/829/hr1.htm]article[/URL] which made similar exagerated claims as far as Egyptian mathematics was concerned. And finally just what other sources did I run to exactly? [QUOTE]I never said they said Egyptinas knew, read slowly, I said your sources don't agree that there is no evidence. Not knowing this you used them to back you your initial claim that there was no evidence Egyptians ever knew of it; but clearly Robins and Shute show that there is some, thus they don't agree with the slur, e.g. van der Waerden cited as evidence by your other source Eli. Yes one could argue for his existence but it's inferred from available evidence, no matter how slim; Egyptian knowledge of the theorem is also inferred from evidence. Whether or not you choose to believe one line of evidence and not the other depends on your agenda, and we all know yours. [/QUOTE]Bogle, there is absolutely no evidence that the Egyptians knew of the Pythagorean Theorem - you will see this in my response to The Explorer below. And absolutely none of those sources that I provided contradict me. Furthermore I have no "agenda." [QUOTE] Its the same with the debate over claims of Jewish [and other white peoples] genetic genius and concomitant black inferiority: you choose to believe one side, perhaps misrepresenting your own sources here too, as clearly, you are not in a habit of reading them. [/QUOTE]I have not misrepresented any of my sources; the links to all the studies are there, feel free to show me however I may have erred. And secondly I don't have to prove "black inferiority" - you all prove that to the entire world everyday of your pitiful lives. :o [/QB][/QUOTE]
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