Pythagorean Cup Was A Practical Joke To Punish Greedy Drinkers And It Still Fools People

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Some ancient scientists had great humor, and one of the world’s best practical jokes comes from Pythagoras who invented a cup to punish greedy drinkers.

The cup looks like just an ordinary cup, and it can fool anyone, even those who tried using it in modern times. It’s a funny and clever ancient invention that has become so popular it can be bought today in many stores. Rest assured it can certainly be used as a nice prank to play on someone.

Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who transformed the ancient world and still inspires the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the arts.

His famous mathematical model, the Pythagorean Theorem which states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides is still used today by different works in many real-life applications.

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