Still, that team was outscored by 24 runs for the season, leading to a final Pythagorean (expected) record of 78-84.

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May 1997 in Crotone became the Maggio Pitagorica (the Pythagorean May).

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In 1820, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss proposed cutting an enormous right triangle into the Siberian pine forest, creating a monument to the Pythagorean theorem big enough to see from outer space.

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For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.

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