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>Two high school girls just solved a trigonometric problem that mathematicians have believed impossible for 2,000 years
live it up while you can. once presented to a peer review mathematics journal, it will be proven to be just another a circular argument. they claim it is not, because their "solution" rests upon the Law of Sines, which they allege is trig identity that is not derived from Pythagoras' result. that is incorrect. buried deep in the proof of the Law of Sines, there is a conclusion implicitly based on Pythagoras' formula. it will take time, as these things always do, for someone to put together a rigorous deconstruction of this alleged achievement. i'm curious to find out if the MSM coverage of the balloon's pop will be as widespread as the coverage of "two black female HS students outsmart 2000 yrs of mathematicians." oh wait, i don't need to wait, i already know. it won't.
no, i'm not going to sauce it beyond what i've already said. if you understand what i wrote, you will be able to figure it out yourself. if you don't understand what i wrote, you wouldn't understand a formal proof anyway. so spare everyone the slide. i'm too old and too tired to construct a rigorous proof, and i really don't care about it enough to bother. the proof has already been constructed, centuries ago.
so let's just say i've had a psychic promonition. this "amazing" achievement will be shown to be a nothingburger. the "loophole" these kids believe they've found will be shown to be non-existent, but the news of their inevitable de-coronation will not even make the last page of the news.
aside - anon has a niece who is a newly minted HS algebra teacher. she was graduated near the top of her university class. i showed her the attached "proof" that 1=2, and asked her to show me why it is false. she could not.