In Stephen Hawking's book "The Grand Design" he states that "Pythagoras probably did not discover this - he also did not discover the theorem that bears his name" ... if not Pythagoras then who?

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According to wikipedia there is some evidence that the Babalonyians knew about it before the big P.

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