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Picture of the month


Credit: Solkoll

The Pythagoras tree is a plane fractal constructed from squares. It is named after Pythagoras because each triple of touching squares encloses a right triangle, in a configuration traditionally used to depict the Pythagorean theorem. This one has been specially coloured to give a more tree like and more 3 dimensional appearance.

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