A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples

This paper revisits the topic of Pythagorean triples with a different perspective. While several methods have been explored to generate Pythagorean triples, none of them is complete in terms of generating all the triples without repetitions. Indeed, many existing methods concentrate on generating pr...

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Main Authors: Anthony Overmars, Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2019-03-01
Series:AIMS Mathematics
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Online Access:https://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/math.2019.2.242/fulltext.html
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Summary:This paper revisits the topic of Pythagorean triples with a different perspective. While several methods have been explored to generate Pythagorean triples, none of them is complete in terms of generating all the triples without repetitions. Indeed, many existing methods concentrate on generating primitive triples but do not cater to non-primitives. By contrast, the approach presented in this paper to parameterise the Pythagorean triples generates all of the triples in a unique way, i.e., without repetitions. We also explore the relation of this new parameterisation with the Pythagorean family of odd triples and with the Platonic family of even triples.
ISSN:2473-6988