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A Pythagorean triangle (Posted on 2016-04-08)

Given: The sum of the squares of a and its reverse b (i.e. the number read from right to left) is a perfect square.

Find the sides a,b,c of this peculiar right-angled triangle.

Source: This property was discovered by Victor Thébault in 1959.

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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An intriguing thing

| Comment 3 of 5 |

The triangle (88209, 90288, 126225) is intriguing. 88209 is the square of 297, and 297 divides all of the sides of the triangle.

297*297=88209

297*304=90288

297*425=126225

Posted by Math Man on 2016-04-11 21:13:36

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