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New Orleans Teens Say They Have Found a New Proof for Pythagorean Theorem

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They presented their findings at an American Mathematical Society regional meeting and were encouraged to submit to a peer-reviewed journal.

Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson
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Two high-school students from New Orleans say they have done what math experts claimed was impossible: created a new proof for the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem that is based on trigonometry.

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