Thursday, November 10, 2011

2011/088) Find a right angled triangle with integer sides whose all three sides are fibonacci numbers.


No solution

Proof:
Let the legs be x and y
X and y cannot be same then hypotenuse shall be x qrt(2) and it is not integer.
Now let x < y and so hypotenuse >= (x+y)
as next Fibonacci number = (x+y) if x and y are consecutive Fibonacci numbers
and > (x+y) if they are not consecutive
So x^2+y^2 >= (x+y)^2 which is not possible unless x = 0
Hence no solution

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