577. Draw an isosceles right triangle on graph paper with the legs equal to the side of a cell, and check the Pythagorean theorem for it: the area of the square built on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares built on the legs.
$\triangleright$ The squares built on the legs have a unit area. The square built on the hypotenuse is divided into four triangles, each of which makes up half of a grid square, and thus has an area of 2 - as required. $\triangleleft$