Im making a Pythoagorean triple and I wanted to know what positive intergers to use?

 

A PYTHAGOREAN TRIPLE is simply a RIGHT TRIANGLE whose SIDES are positive INTEGERS.

An easy way to generate Pythagorean Triples is to multiply any known Pythagorean Triple by an integer (any integer).  


 

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A positive integer is a whole number (i.e. with no fraction) larger than zero (e.g. 1, 2 or 99)

An example of a Pythagoran triple is 3,4 & 5 (because 3*3 + 4*4 = 5*5)

So multiplying these by the same positive integer will yield more triples, e.g. 6,8 and 10 are also Pythagoran triples since 36 + 64 = 100.

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