[Coco] Project Euler and the Coco

[Art Flexser]

Thanks, interesting site.  So, the formula generates all Pythagorean triplets
that are primitive ones (i.e., not a scaled-up version of a smaller Pythagorean
triangle).

Art

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Mark McDougall wrote:

> Art Flexser wrote:
> 
> > Yes, that certainly beats the brute force method.  Though I'm not certain that
> > that formula for Pythagorean triangles generates all of them, rather than only
> > some.  So, it may be that some similar problems would not yield to that
> > approach.
> 
> <http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Pythag/pythag.html#mnformula>
> 
> Regards,
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