Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Pythagorean triple
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Pythagorean triangles in a 2D lattice== A 2D [[Lattice (group)|lattice]] is a regular array of isolated points where if any one point is chosen as the Cartesian origin (0, 0), then all the other points are at {{math|(''x'', ''y'')}} where {{math|''x''}} and {{math|''y''}} range over all positive and negative integers. Any Pythagorean triangle with triple {{math|(''a'', ''b'', ''c'')}} can be drawn within a 2D lattice with vertices at coordinates {{math|(0, 0)}}, {{math|(''a'', 0)}} and {{math|(0, ''b'')}}. The count of lattice points lying strictly within the bounds of the triangle is given by <math>\tfrac{(a-1)(b-1)-\gcd{(a,b)}+1}{2};</math><ref>{{citation|title=Recreational Mathematics|last=Yiu|first=Paul|work=Course Notes |at=Ch. 2, p. 110 |publisher=Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University |year=2003|url=http://math.fau.edu/Yiu/RecreationalMathematics2003.pdf}}</ref> for primitive Pythagorean triples this interior lattice count is <math>\tfrac{(a-1)(b-1)}{2}.</math> The area (by [[Pick's theorem]] equal to one less than the interior lattice count plus half the boundary lattice count) equals <math>\tfrac{ab}{2}</math> . The first occurrence of two primitive Pythagorean triples sharing the same area occurs with triangles with sides {{math|(20, 21, 29), (12, 35, 37)}} and common area 210 {{OEIS|id=A093536}}. The first occurrence of two primitive Pythagorean triples sharing the same interior lattice count occurs with {{math|(18108, 252685, 253333), (28077, 162964, 165365)}} and interior lattice count 2287674594 {{OEIS|id=A225760}}. Three primitive Pythagorean triples have been found sharing the same area: {{math|(4485, 5852, 7373)}}, {{math|(3059, 8580, 9109)}}, {{math|(1380, 19019, 19069)}} with area 13123110. As yet, no set of three primitive Pythagorean triples have been found sharing the same interior lattice count.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Pythagorean triple
(section)
Add topic