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us Diophantine problem we can all recite. “The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides” The equation for a Pythagorean triangle. The theorem applies to right-angled triangles and there are sixteen whole number solutions, known as Pythagorean triples; three, four, fiv

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