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In this case, the number of primitive Pythagorean triples (a, b, c) with a < b is 2 k−1, where k is the number of distinct prime factors of c. [25] There exist infinitely many Pythagorean triples with square numbers for both the hypotenuse c and the sum of the legs a + b.
For Fibonacci numbers starting with F 1 = 0 and F 2 = 1 and with each succeeding Fibonacci number being the sum of the preceding two, one can generate a sequence of Pythagorean triples starting from (a 3, b 3, c 3) = (4, 3, 5) via
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 ...
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).
A Pythagorean triangle is right-angled and Heronian. Its three integer sides are known as a Pythagorean triple or Pythagorean triplet or Pythagorean triad. [9] All Pythagorean triples (,,) with hypotenuse which are primitive (the sides having no common factor) can be generated by
To use modern terminology, if p and q are natural numbers such that p>q then (p 2 − q 2, 2pq, p 2 + q 2) forms a Pythagorean triple. The triple is primitive, that is the three triangle sides have no common factor, if p and q are coprime and not both odd.
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]
which is both the t-th triangular number and the s-th square number. A near-isosceles Pythagorean triple is an integer solution to a 2 + b 2 = c 2 where a + 1 = b. The next table shows that splitting the odd number H n into nearly equal halves gives a square triangular number when n is even and a near isosceles Pythagorean triple when n is odd ...