My father was present in the lecture halls of Cal Tech when Richard Feynman was teaching the freshman physics course. I recently obtained CD versions of several lectures (the famous Lost Lecture on planetary bodies, Six Easy Pieces), that I've been listening to in the car. Wow - geometric constructions from Big Jule - let's shoot crap.
I need to work through the ellipse constructions, and decided to begin by reviewing the famous construction by Pythagorus. This got me to thinking about right triangles with sides of integer length. (3,4,5) is most well known, followed perhaps by (5,12,13), but I have never really explored how to find other triplets. It can't be all that hard...
May 4, 2003 5:55 PM
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I can give you a solution!
given: any single number, I can give you two other numbers which would be "perfect squares"
i.e. 7, 24, 25
8, 15, 17
Comment by: Hans Farley December 30,2004