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Sums of Two Squares Visualized

Number Theory 2022-12-15 v1

Abstract

We provide a geometric interpretation of Brillhart's celebrated algorithm for expressing a prime p1(mod4)p\equiv 1\pmod 4 as the sum of two squares.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2212.06859,
  title  = {Sums of Two Squares Visualized},
  author = {Ishan Banerjee and Amites Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06859},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures

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