Find the smallest right triangle with integer sides such that the hypotenuse is a square and the sum of the legs is also a square.
In 1643, Fermat challenged Mersenne to find a Pythagorean triplet whose hypotenuse and sum of the legs were squares. Fermat found the smallest such solution:
X=4565486027761
Y=1061652293520
Z=4687298610289,
with Z=2165017^2 and X+Y=2372159^2.
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PythagoreanTriple.html
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on 2024-01-03 08:45:17 |
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