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High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem

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Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson used trigonometry to prove the Pythagorean theorem.

They came up with the proof in a high school math contest in 2022 .

A new paper published Monday in the journal American Mathematical Monthly shows their solution held up to peer review.

The two students also outlined nine more new ways to prove Pythagoras ' theorem using trigonometrics.

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