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Once upon a time in an Indian village, each of three squaws prepared for the birth of her first child. The first squaw spread a bear hide near a pine grove; the second squaw carefully laid a moose hide in the shade of a large oak tree; the third squaw spread a hipppotamus hide beside a rippling brook.
It happens that the three women gave birth on he same day. The squaw on the bear hide had a son, as did the squaw on the moose hide, but the third squaw gave birth to twin sons.
To this day, mathamaticians give credit to these three women for the first known proof of the Pythagorean theorem: The sons of the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the two adjacent hides.
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