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Pythagorean triple

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Pythagorean triple [pə‚thag·ə¦rē·ən ′trip·əl]
(mathematics)
Pythagorean numbers


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Trial and error with the Pythagorean triple {3,4,5} soon establishes that x = 32 and y = 24.
Folding shapes by de Mestre, Neville / Australian Mathematics Teacher
That content includes divisibility in the natural numbers, linear equations through the ages, the prime numbers, thinking cyclically, Fermat and Euler, cryptography, polynomial congruence, quadratic reciprocity, Pythagorean triples, sums of squares, Fermat's last theorem, diophantine approximations and Pell equations, primality testing, and mathematical induction.
Number theory through inquiry by SciTech Book News
The whole numbers a, b, and c are a Pythagorean triple if a and b are the lengths of two sides of a right triangle with hypotenuse c, so a2 + b2 = c2.
The 2500-Year-Old Pythagorean Theorem by Brain Haley / Reference and Education community
 
 
 
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