I guess, because one man had an enquiring mind and somehow discovered the relationship between the squares of the sides of triangles. Also they needed to ensure they had right angles for building and the 3-4-5 right angle triangle was perfect for this.
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the standard form of the Pythagorean Theorem is :a2 + b2 = c2
The Pythagorean theorem is a2 + b2 = c2
The Pythagorean theorem gets its name from the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras. He was one of the first to offer proof of the theorem.
Pythagoras invented the Pythagorean Theorem of course, but it only can work for right triangles, not any other triangle. The formula is- A2+B2=C2