... The guy I responded to is saying Pythagoras is good enough. Do you know what year Pythagoras died?
Also, comparing web technologies to something as fundamental as the pythagorean theorem is reductionist and overall pretty ridiculous. Web technologies need maintenance. Proven mathematical formulas don’t.
The eponymous triangle work is just as valid as it ever was in Euclidean geometries - lot of work there. That work is just as wrong as it ever was in non-Euclidean geometries - maths is timeless like that.
> Also, comparing web technologies to something as fundamental as ...
Take that up with whomever it was that did that.