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A primitive Pythagorean triple is one in which a, b and c are coprime (that is, they have no common divisor larger than 1). [1] For example, (3, 4, 5) is a primitive Pythagorean triple whereas (6, 8, 10) is not. Every Pythagorean triple can be scaled to a unique primitive Pythagorean triple by dividing (a, b, c) by their greatest common divisor ...
A tree of primitive Pythagorean triples is a mathematical tree in which each node represents a primitive Pythagorean triple and each primitive Pythagorean triple is represented by exactly one node. In two of these trees, Berggren's tree and Price's tree, the root of the tree is the triple (3,4,5), and each node has exactly three children ...
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.
This table lists two of the three numbers in what are now called Pythagorean triples, i.e., integers a, b, and c satisfying a 2 + b 2 = c 2. From a modern perspective, a method for constructing such triples is a significant early achievement, known long before the Greek and Indian mathematicians discovered solutions to this problem.
The Plimpton 322 tablet records Pythagorean triples from Babylonian times. [1] Animation demonstrating the simplest Pythagorean triple, 3 2 + 4 2 = 5 2. Bust of Pythagoras, Musei Capitolini, Rome. Pythagoras was already well known in ancient times for his supposed mathematical achievement of the Pythagorean theorem. [2]
A Pythagorean triple has three positive integers a, b, and c, such that a 2 + b 2 = c 2. In other words, a Pythagorean triple represents the lengths of the sides of a right triangle where all three sides have integer lengths. [1] Such a triple is commonly written (a, b, c). Some well-known examples are (3, 4, 5) and (5, 12, 13).
The sutras contain statements of the Pythagorean theorem, both in the case of an isosceles right triangle and in the general case, as well as lists of Pythagorean triples. [24] In Baudhayana, for example, the rules are given as follows:
Metallic Ratios in Primitive Pythagorean Triangles. Metallic means are precisely represented by some primitive Pythagorean triples, a 2 + b 2 = c 2, with positive integers a < b < c. In a primitive Pythagorean triple, if the difference between hypotenuse c and longer leg b is 1, 2 or 8, such Pythagorean triple accurately represents one ...