Monthly Archives: November 2014

Primitive Heron Triangles and Pythagorean Triples having the same Perimeter

  See older post: Heron triangle (a,b,c) – abc(a+b+c) Here’s a list of all Heron triangles with sides less than 100   Pythagorean Triples that have the same perimeter as primitive Heron triangles whose sides are less than 100.   … Continue reading

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Expressing Consecutive Squares and Cubes

  Expressing consecutive squares: …………………………………. ………………………………….   Expressing consecutive cubes ……………………………………. …………………………………….   Can you express consecutive 4-th powers?                          

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Integers(x,y,z) such that (xy+x+y),(yz+y+z),(zx+z+x) are all squares

    Book III Diophantus Arithmetica: To find integers     such that are all squares Solution: ,          ,          Indeed,                              

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Primitive Heron triangles (a, b, c) and (s-a, s-b, s-c)

  where   s   is the semiperimeter To find Heron triangle (a, b, c) for which (s-a,   s-b,   s-c) is also a Heron. N.B.   Look for primitive solutions   For example,           … Continue reading

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Generating Primitive Heron triangles from the sides of a PPT

  Using these parametric equations to generate primitive Heron triangles I chose all the primitive Pythagorean triples with   k ≤ 300                            

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Heron triangle (a,b,c) – abc(a+b+c)

  General formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_triangle#Heronian_triangles The abovementioned algorithm doesn’t generate, for example,   (7, 24, 25). H. Schubert in 1905 published these formulae: which can give us   (7, 24, 25). Hermann Schubert’s paper                                                                  ——————————————————————   To find … Continue reading

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Pythagorean triple (a,b,c) | Can (c/a + c/b) be an integer?

  with equality only if   a = b. contradicting a, c both being integers. Thus         Now, we need to ask, is there an integer n such that where   (a, b, c)   is a Pythagorean … Continue reading

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Part 3 | Pythagorean triples (8, 15, 17) and (by-ax, ay+bx, cz)

  See previous posts: Part 1 | Pythagorean triples   (a,b,c),   (x,y,z)   and   (ax-by, ay+bx, cz) Part 2 | Pythagorean triples   (5, 12, 13)   and   (by-ax,   ay+bx, cz)     Pythagorean triples   … Continue reading

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Part 2 | Pythagorean triples (5, 12, 13) and (by-ax, ay+bx, cz)

  See previous post:   Pythagorean triples (a,b,c), (x,y,z) and (ax-by, ay+bx, cz)   (a=5,   b=12,   c=13)   and   (x, y, z)   is any triple from the set of all the primitive Pythagorean triples with c … Continue reading

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Pythagorean triples (a,b,c), (x,y,z) and (ax-by, ay+bx, cz)

  Let (a, b, c)   and   (x, y, z)   be Pythagorean triples. So,    and    (by-ax,   ay+bx,   cz)   is a Pythagorean triple   (a=3,   b=4,   c=5)   and   (x, y, … Continue reading

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