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28 Post author: Will_Newsome 12 January 2014 02:18AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 January 2014 03:30:33PM 0 points [-]

Ah, but note the 'history' section of the Thales article. It rather supports my picture, if it supports anything at all.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 January 2014 01:55:23AM 0 points [-]

Why? If you mean that Thales learned the result from the Babylonians, the point is that he appears to have been the first to bother proving it.