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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Right triangles

Prove that a triangle with sides that can be written in the form of n2 + 1, n2 - 1 and 2n (where n > 1) is right-angled.

Show, by means of a counterexample, that the converse is false.

[from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time]

Posted by Steve at 12:30 PM

1 comment:

RWH said...

Has it come to this?

2:36 PM, October 10, 2007

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