Connection of Perpendicular in right triangle

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I am sorry first, my mother language is not English so I have a problem to explain ‘what I want to know’. But I will try my best.

The Pythagorean rule said that “C^2=ab”. And I understood if a=b, then it become a=b=c. But if a and b is not the same length, why C^2 still is ab?? I want to understand the prove. Thank you for reading.

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All of the triangles are similar so the ratios of their sides are the same. This means we can multiply both sides by the denominator product and get

$$\dfrac{a}{c}=\dfrac{c}{b}\implies a\cdot b=c\cdot c$$

The smallest Pythgorean triple with an integer for diagonal $\,c\,$ is shown here. Using extended manipulation of the Pythagorean Theorem, we can derive $\quad c=\dfrac{AB}{C}\quad$ which can also be verified by inspection of this example.

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