Re: fast pythagorean triple generator

On Sep 24, 1:39 pm, david.willi...@xxxxxxxxxx (David Williams) wrote:
Forget the prime idea. I quickly found exceptions, such as 119, 120,
169. 169 is not only not prime, it's a perfect square!

Some interesting properties which do hold:

1) The largest number in the triple is always odd
2) The sum of the triple is always even

Cheers

Derek
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