Saturday, January 19, 2013

Q13/005) If an integer sided right triangle has two prime sides, must the difference of some two sides equal one?



If x y z are a triple then
x^2+y^2 = z^2
=> x^2 = (z^2-y^2)= (z+y)(z-y)
if x is prime then x^2 cannot have 2 different factors
(z-y) and (z+y) being different so z –y has to be 1

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