Spiral of Theodorus

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Making this piece of artwork is very simple to do because all you have to know how to do is make a right angle. Just continue to make right angles and make sure one side is 1 inch and you will make a spiral. The math is super simple because once you know the square root of the first triangle it's pretty easy to find the rest. All you do is take a2+b2=c2 so for the first triangle shown above you just plug in the length of the sides that make the right angle and then square root it!

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