Don’t read this…

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… it could be detrimental to your health.

One of Pythagoras’s students crossed the master (who maintained that ALL square roots are rational) with his life by drowning by proving the opposite.

As he pushed the student’s head under water, he noticed how the displacement of the water raised the level of the tub, cried “Eureka” and that’s how the Archimedes Principle was discovered.

I think.

Assuming that the student’s name was Archimedes….

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