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Power rankings: No. 13 Giants
Chicago Tribune
They cobbled together an 86-victory season a year ago by going 33-22 in one-run games, with Bochy's managing earning them six extra victories according to the Pythagorean standings. That's 67-47 in the close games — a .588 winning percentage, ...

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Poet of the universe
Sydney Morning Herald
He began with the Pythagorean theory of harmony, based upon simple ratios of string lengths: 2/1 and 3/2, and so on. Bob then demonstrated how that simple idea leads to more complicated ratios, and finally, almost in contradiction, to irrational ...

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Chicken Friars

National League West Predictions
Chicken Friars
Their pythagorean record actually had them a bit better at 84-77. The Dodgers have the Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw barely approaching the prime of his career. They have Matt Kemp, an MVP candidate every season going forward as far as I'm concerned.

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Ex-AL Central counterparts laud Guillen as in-game manager
Chicago Tribune
One way, albeit imperfect, is to compare the team's actual record to its Pythagorean record. Bill James developed the formula for Pythagorean winning percentage, which estimates a team's record based on how many runs it scored and allowed.

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Fielder's effect on the AL Central
ESPN
Sure, the Detroit Tigers won 95 games last year, but their Pythagorean record was a more modest 89-73, and in 2012 they'll be without one of their best hitters in Victor Martinez. That meant an opportunity for an up-and-coming squad like the Cleveland ...
Staring Up at Prince and the TigersTwinkie Town
Cleveland Indians fans shouldn't be quick to hand Detroit Tigers the divisionSam Drew Takes On (blog)

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Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle (right-angled triangle).

Pythagoras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was an old Pythagorean maxim, that every thing was not to be told to every body. Thus the Pythagoreans were divided into an inner circle called the mathematikoi ...

Pythagorean theorem: Definition from Answers.com
n. The theorem that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse.

The Pythagorean Theorem - Jim Wilson's Home Page
The Pythagorean Theorem was one of the earliest theorems known to ancient civilizations. This famous theorem is named for the Greek mathematician and philosopher ...

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans - Department of Mathematics ...
The Pythagorean Theory of Proportion. In fact, Pythagoras or more probably the Pythagorean s added seven more proportions. Here are a few, given in modern notation:

Pythagorean - definition of Pythagorean by the Free Online ...
Py·thag·o·re·an·ism (p-th g-r-n z m) n. The syncretistic philosophy expounded by Pythagoras, distinguished chiefly by its description of reality in terms of ...

Pythagorean Theorem -- from Wolfram MathWorld
For a right triangle with legs a and b and hypotenuse c, a^2+b^2=c^2. (1) Many different proofs exist for this most fundamental of all geometric theorems. The theorem ...

Pythagorean - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster ...
Definition of PYTHAGOREAN: any of a group professing to be followers of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. First Known Use of PYTHAGOREAN. 1550. Rhymes with PYTHAGOREAN

Pythagorean Triple -- from Wolfram MathWorld
A Pythagorean triple is a triple of positive integers a, b, and c such that a right triangle exists with legs a,b and hypotenuse c. By the Pythagorean theorem, this ...

Pythagorean - Wonder How To » How To Videos & How-To Articles
Pythagorean |► Watch how to videos & articles tagged "pythagorean" on Wonder How To, like Solve Pythagorean Theorem proofs and geometry problems, Use the ...