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Credit is given to the Greek mathematician Pythagoras but the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians knew of the properties of a right angle triangle long before Pythagoras
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Sounds like you mean Pythagoras.
Yes, the distance formula for a line segment was derived from Pythagoras' theorem.
The Babylonians and Indians were the first to study the angles and features of special right triangles. This occurred long before Pythagoras and his followers were credited with the discovery.