https://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php?title=Forsooths_(May-June_2005)&feed=atom&action=historyForsooths (May-June 2005) - Revision history2024-03-28T17:17:42ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0-alphahttps://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php?title=Forsooths_(May-June_2005)&diff=13124&oldid=prevJls at 15:08, 29 June 20052005-06-29T15:08:27Z<p></p>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~rockmore/WSJ.pdf As the stakes increase, Prime-Number theory Moves Closer to Proof]<br><br />
Wall Street Journal, Science Journal, April 8. 2005, B1 <br><br />
Sharon Begley<br />
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<center> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/wikividios/primeWSJ.jpg</center><br />
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[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/sports/football/23score.html?ex=1115784000&en=f8bea5a9b20fb828&ei=5070 Follow the points to find a Super Bowl champ]<br><br />
New York Times, 223 January, 2005, p 11<br><br />
Aaron Schatz<br />
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The explanation rests in a mathematical formula created by the baseball analyst Bill James<br />
and introduced in the 1980 Baseball Abstract. James determined that the record of a baseball team could be approximated by taking the square of team runs scored and dividing it by the <br />
square of team runs scored plus the square of team runs allowed. '''Because of its similarity to the geometric method for determining the sum of the angles in a right triangle, he called it the Pythagorean theorem'''.<br />
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DISCUSSION QUESTION:<br />
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How close is the Pythagorean theorem to the theorem that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees?<br />
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P.S. Norton Star provided this picture observed by a student Tosin while walking in New York. Evidently New Yorkers are determined to not forget the quadradic formula!<br />
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