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This chapter begins with a brief review of right triangle geometry, before exploring how these triangles come up in number theory. Triangles such as the two pictured below, in which one angle is a right angle, or a 90° angle, are called right triangles. Remember from geometry that the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides are called the legs of the right triangle.
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© 2015 Sylvia Forman and Agnes M. Rash
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Forman, S., Rash, A.M. (2015). Pythagorean Triples. In: The Whole Truth About Whole Numbers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11035-6_3
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