[Coco] Project Euler and the Coco

[Art Flexser]

Ah, an 8-15-17 Pythagorean triangle scaled up 25 times.  So, a shortcut approach
would have been to sift through small Pythagorean triangles looking for one
whose perimeter went into 1000 evenly, and scale it up appropriately (40 x 25 =
1000).  One formula for generating Pythagorean triangles is to use as sides
2XY, (X^2-Y^2), and (X^2+Y^2), where X and Y can be any two integers with X>Y.
That gives you the 8-15-17 triangle when X=4 and Y=1, or the 200-375-425 one
when X=20 and Y=5.

Art

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Mark McDougall wrote:


> Arthur Flexser wrote:

> 

> > (By the way, what ARE those values?)

> 

> 200, 375 & 425

> 

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