Comment by JanisErdmanis

Comment by JanisErdmanis 4 days ago

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Indeed, a wonderful proof. It does, though, make one implicit assumption that if one stretches the fabric by the same amount, all holes in it stretch by the same amount. In particular, it assumes that triangle stretching is size-independent. Perhaps there are fabrics where that is not true...

layer8 4 days ago

The Pythagorean theorem is only true in Euclidian space, where that “stretching” assumption is true. So you are right about there being assumptions, and indeed they are imposing limitations to the applicability of the theorem.