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: Overmars, A., Ntogramatzidis, Lorenzo, Venkatraman, S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS 2019
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160104994
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90797
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author Overmars, A.
Ntogramatzidis, Lorenzo
Venkatraman, S.
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Ntogramatzidis, Lorenzo
Venkatraman, S.
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description 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.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-907972023-04-20T02:00:27Z A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples Overmars, A. Ntogramatzidis, Lorenzo Venkatraman, S. Science & Technology Physical Sciences Mathematics, Applied Mathematics Pythagorean triples Diophantine equations Euclidean triples Platonic triples right angle triangles PARAMETRIZATION 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. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90797 10.3934/math.2019.2.242 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160104994 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Mathematics, Applied
Mathematics
Pythagorean triples
Diophantine equations
Euclidean triples
Platonic triples
right angle triangles
PARAMETRIZATION
Overmars, A.
Ntogramatzidis, Lorenzo
Venkatraman, S.
A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples
title A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples
title_full A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples
title_fullStr A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples
title_full_unstemmed A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples
title_short A new approach to generate all Pythagorean triples
title_sort new approach to generate all pythagorean triples
topic Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Mathematics, Applied
Mathematics
Pythagorean triples
Diophantine equations
Euclidean triples
Platonic triples
right angle triangles
PARAMETRIZATION
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160104994
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90797