Barb was working on a complicated quilt with many pieces
that were sewn together to make right angle triangles. She kept measuring and placing but the
triangles wouldn’t line up. She had made
a few cuts of the fabric and they didn’t fit together. She was running out of the fabric she
wanted to use. So she was getting
disparate. I offered to calculate the shape of the pieces using some
trigonometry and some geometry. When
Barb finally had the quilt together she was very thankful. Barb is always sad to say she never
learned the Pythagorean Theorem in high school math.
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