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For example, a right triangle may have angles that form simple relationships, such as 45°–45°–90°. This is called an "angle-based" right triangle. A "side-based" right triangle is one in which the lengths of the sides form ratios of whole numbers, such as 3 : 4 : 5, or of other special numbers such as the golden ratio.
25 = 5 2 (5, 12, 13) ... which states that if the square on one side of a triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides then the other two ...
The area of a Pythagorean triangle cannot be the square [12]: p. 17 or twice the square [12]: p. 21 of an integer. Exactly one of a, b is divisible by 2 (is even), and the hypotenuse c is always odd. [13] Exactly one of a, b is divisible by 3, but never c. [14] [8]: 23–25
Wade and Wade [17] first introduced the categorization of Pythagorean triples by their height, defined as c − b, linking 3,4,5 to 5,12,13 and 7,24,25 and so on. McCullough and Wade [18] extended this approach, which produces all Pythagorean triples when k > h √ 2 /d: Write a positive integer h as pq 2 with p square-free and q positive.
The theorem can be proved algebraically using four copies of the same triangle arranged symmetrically around a square with side c, as shown in the lower part of the diagram. [5] This results in a larger square, with side a + b and area (a + b) 2. The four triangles and the square side c must have the same area as the larger square,
Fig. 1 – A triangle. The angles α (or A), β (or B), and γ (or C) are respectively opposite the sides a, b, and c.. In trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles.
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As a consequence of the Pythagorean theorem, the hypotenuse is the longest side of any right triangle; that is, the hypotenuse is longer than either of the triangle's legs. For example, given the length of the legs a = 5 and b = 12, then the sum of the legs squared is (5 × 5) + (12 × 12) = 169, the square of the hypotenuse.