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Pythagorean Triples

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The investigation of Pythagorian triples has a very long history. For the first hundred years I refer to the famous book [DIC01]. Triangles of this type were given by Greek and Indian mathematicians.

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Hlawka, E. (2000). Pythagorean Triples. In: Bambah, R.P., Dumir, V.C., Hans-Gill, R.J. (eds) Number Theory. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7023-8_8

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