Chapter 231: The Pythagorean Theorem

Seeing the bewildered expressions of several doctors, Yin Yan was startled, bowed slightly, turned her face sideways to take a look, and was also stunned when the picture in front of her appeared in front of her.

She recognized the figure as a three-oblique drawing.

She loves poetry and books, but she is not very proficient in arithmetic, so she spread her hands against Li Zhao and clubbed aside.

She is not proficient, looking at the appearance of several doctors, it doesn't seem to be good-looking, so I don't know if I can answer it, if I can't answer it, then I will suffer, but when I saw Li Zhao next to her, I felt at ease.

With him, it seems like nothing is a thing.

The doctors circled around the bamboo scroll, frowning, and scratching their hair from time to time, seemingly stumped them.

"I have never seen this word, but the three oblique drawings are often heard, but it is very difficult to ask for the long oblique edge, everyone, you have a clue." A doctor shook his head and said that he was a great Confucian, proficient in Confucianism, but did not know much about arithmetic.

Several other people also shook their heads, they were also Confucian scholars, who studied Confucius and Mencius intensively, but neglected arithmetic.

In fact, it is no wonder that they have hundreds of schools of thought, each contending, especially Legalism, Confucianism, Moism, Taoism, etc., but some side details are not taken seriously, and natural scholars are insignificant.

Seeing a few people shaking their heads, Ying Zheng was shocked, Huo Di stood up, pointed at them and scolded: "As a doctor, don't you hurry up and answer, do you want to destroy my Great Qin foundation?" ”

If you can't solve this problem, you will have to cede Jiaodong County, which is no different from destroying the foundation of Great Qin.

When the doctors heard that they could afford such a crime, some people hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger, we will rack our brains, but this question is extremely bizarre, not like a human question, lest it be a trick." ”

The man speaks his mind.

Indeed, this word is strange, and the problem is even more difficult, and there is no way to start, how can it be solved?

"Ridiculous!" An Wen envoy was angry, pointing at the doctor and reprimanding, "This is a serious question, it can be solved, but it is just stupid." ”

"That's it, if you can't answer, you can say it's a joke, this is Dr. Daqin? It's really ridiculous and generous. Someone in the mission teased, his expression very cold, but he had a triumphant look.

"Nonsense. Obviously, it is." A doctor retorted, but he couldn't say anything, but he was stopped by Yingzheng, "Okay, don't say it again" and then set his eyes on Yin Yan, at this moment, he can only pin his trust on his daughter.

"Yin Yan, maybe it can be solved?"

Yin Yan was asked like this, which was not surprising, but she really wouldn't, and her hand couldn't help but touch Li Zhao lightly, and Li Zhao sneered.

He also saw the question in the bamboo scroll clearly, isn't this a right triangle? Right angled sides 3 and 4, which are typical of hook three strands and four chord fives.

Compared to the doctors in their previous lives, these doctors are really stupid, and they can't answer such a simple question.

However, I was relieved to think and think about it, Daqin was keen on law, and it was normal that he didn't specialize in learning from him, and he couldn't answer.

In fact, such a question is not unrecorded in Daqin, if his memory is not bad, there is a conversation between Shang Gao and Zhou Gong in the "Zhou Ji Sutra". Shang Gao said: "Fold, Gou Guang three, stock repair four, Jingyu five." This means that when the two right-angled sides of a right-angled triangle are 3 (hook) and 4 (strand) respectively, the radial corner (chord) is 5.

This is the Pythagorean theorem.

And the numbers in it are also obvious, right-angled sides 3 and 4, and the hypotenuse is naturally 5, but unfortunately these people can't answer.

No, he must have looked down on the doctors, maybe someone had read them, but they just didn't remember much, or they didn't recognize the number.

Numbers, hehe, Li Zhao remembered, these are Arabic numerals, in fact, Arabic numerals were only introduced to China in the 13th and 14th centuries AD, and naturally there were no in this period.

Naturally, these doctors don't know where to start.

So, he went to the corner again, took out a piece of paper and wrote, and soon gave it to Yin Yan.

(End of chapter)