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The Wayward Hypotenuse

A hypotenusal segment would stray.
Concerned geometers would say, "What way?"
till the brightest of them exclaimed, "Hey!
I think it went from B to A."
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Wolf Avatar
January 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Now THIS is GENIUS, David! Right into my faves. TYSM, Gershon
Crandall Avatar
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Haha, I think I should send this discovery to the Annals of Mathematics! Did I slip a new bogus (and hypotenusal) word past you?
Theraven Avatar
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Hello David, As surely as the angle is adjacent and right. May the wisdom of Pythagoras shine down upon you from Samos, in geometry, astronomy, & rhyme. -Richard
Crandall Avatar
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Haha, thank you sir!
Crandall Avatar
January 11, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Haha, thank you sir!
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