Aug. 25 (UPI) --The ancient Babylonians - who lived from about 4,000 BCE in what is now Iraq - had a long forgotten understanding of right-angled triangles that was much simpler and more accurate ...

Two US college students, who discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras' famous 2,000-year-old theorem in 2022 have now come up with five different ways of solving the problem using trigonometry.

A right-angled triangle is like half a rectangle. So to calculate the area of a triangle, you can work out the area of the rectangle and then divide by 2. The formula for working out the area of a ...