Two high school seniors solved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for 2,000 years.

Wasn’t this already done by some Russian mathematicians many years ago?

This was already done like 15 years ago but okey lmao

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They’re called Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, and they’re from New Orleans. Johnson and Jackson discovered that the Pythagorean Theorem — a principle relating to the relationship between three sides of a right triangle — could be solved with trigonometry. The theorem had been proven before in the last 2,000 years, but never with the use of trigonometry, until the students showed that this was a possibility.

This one got Community Noted already 🧐

Wasn’t it solved 15 years ago?

This puzzle has been solved many times over

Correspondent Bill Whitaker met two former students, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who made math history when they both independently proved the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry, an achievement that was once thought to be impossible. Whitaker asked St. Mary's Academy principal Pamela Rogers if she was shocked when she learned what the girls had achieved. "We were not shocked…our students can do anything. And that's what we tell them. You know, 'The sky is the limit, and we want to be up there with you,'" she told 60 Minutes. Full video here: Credit: cbsnews

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No, they didn’t. This is utter nonsense.