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The pythagorean theorem is a special case of the law of cosines

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The Pythagorean Theorem is a special case of the law of cosines, a2 + b2 - 2*a*b*cos (theta) = c2 because cos (theta) = 0 when the angle is a 90 degree or right angle. We also learned that the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem is true as

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