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From TFA:

> "What I had stumbled upon was that physical entities (stones) are not equatable with conceptual entities (points)," Bochner said

That's because the relevant conceptual and physical entities when contemplating lengths of sides of triangles, which is what Pythagoras' theorem is about, are lines, not points.

>The artist claims it was intentional. Do you know otherwise?

His reply reveals that he still doesn't get it, which to me seems to prove that it can't have been intentional.




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