And I decided today to share what I learned about an algorithm for generating Pythagorean triples for any

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and

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, where

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Z. A Pythagorean triple are any three whole numbers which satisfy the equation

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. Let

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;

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, and you will obtain a solution to the relation

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. It is therefore not that hard, if we allow

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and

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to be any numbers from 1 to 100, and

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, to write a computer program to generate the first 9800 or so Pythagorean triples, allowing for negative values for

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or

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.