Pythagorean Triples
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010When math textbooks need an example of a right triangle, they frequently use a triangle with sides of length 3, 4, and 5, since the numbers work out so nicely: by the Pythagorean theorem. If that gets tiresome, 12, 5, 13 might be used: . Clearly, multiplies of these numbers work also, e.g. [...]
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