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istjohn
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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
It wasn't obvious to me either. But we know the angles ABC, ABD, and DBE equal 180 degrees, as do the interior angles of triangle ABC. From that we can deduce that angle BAC = angle DBE, from which it follows that angle ABC = angle BDE.
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