A cornucopia of pythagorean triangles
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2009-10-02 v1
Abstract
Consider two circles, externally tangential,and with integer radii R1, R2; and with R1>R2.The two circles have three tangent lines in common, one of them being T1T2. If M is the midpoint of T1T2, and K the point of intersection of the lines C1C2 and T1T2;then 16 right triangles are formed(C1 and C2 are the two circle centers), see Figure 1.In Section 6 of this paper, we find the precice form the two integers R1 and R2 must have, in order that the sixteen aforementioned right triangles be Pythagorean.
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@article{arxiv.0910.0197,
title = {A cornucopia of pythagorean triangles},
author = {Konstantine Zelator},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0197},
year = {2009}
}
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16 pages, 2 figures