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The Colt of Pythagoras - Is Hipparchus a Real Pythagorean?

There is some discussion of a particular person named hipparchus, who is the one, if anybody was thrown overboard at sea for discovering it, its hipparchus. So, but was he? It doesn't seem to be the case. Some people doubt that there a real pythagoras like because pythagora was imbued with a lot of godlike powers. He really was some kind of religious figure. There's a school the pythagoreans. They really existed. And now we keep telling it cause it's such a good storyi have to ask, in the colt of pythagorians, in the story about the person showing that the square

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