Here's the deal; there was this Greek guy named Pythagoras ... triangle (where one angle equals 90°), the sum of the squares of two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side).

Taking the triangle DEG, Pythagoras’ theorem can be used to calculate the length of EG. EG is the hypotenuse so should be labelled as 𝒄. ED can be labelled as 𝒂. DG can be labelled as 𝒃 ...

In an extraordinary achievement that has stunned the global mathematics community, two high school students from Louisiana ...