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Geometry. Special Right Triangles How to remember “Special" – for their ability to yield exact answers instead of decimal approximations when dealing with trigonometric functions. Pythagoras. Pythagoreans Around 500 B.C., Hippasus of Metapontum showed that irrational number existed.
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Geometry Special Right Triangles • How to remember • “Special" – for their ability to yield exact answers instead of decimal approximations when dealing with trigonometric functions.
Pythagoreans Around 500 B.C., Hippasus of Metapontum showed that irrational number existed.
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Geometry Special Triangles • How to remember • “Special" – for their ability to yield exact answers instead of decimal approximations when dealing with trigonometric functions.