Claim: An ancient Tamil poet's method finds the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle only using the length of the sides, and simple fractions; without the need to find the square or the square root.
Fact-check: This formula of an ancient Tamil poet for calculating the hypotenuse of a triangle does not give accurate results in all the cases - FACTLY
Verdict: the formula attributed to a tamil poet in the post does not give accurate results in all scenarios. only in some cases, the results are accurate. also, the given formula to find the hypotenuse length does not work if the smaller side is taken as the base/horizontal . the pythagoras theorem works even if a and b are interchanged. hence the claim made in the post is misleading.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Akhil Reddy
Date published: 2022-11-23T10:54:36