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May 31st, 2002, 11:23 AM
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I found this which looks a little like you asked for:
The Babylonians were so advanced, they had a theorem for discovering Pythagorian triples.
If p and q take on all whole values subject only to the conditions
1) p > q > 0,
2) p and q have no common divisors other than 1,
3) p and q are not both odd,
then the expressions
x = p2 - q2,
y = 2pq
z = p2 + q2,
will produce all reduced Pythagorean number triples, and each triple only once. (Aaboe 30-31)
From:http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00dbwolfe/paper.htm
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