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On the Equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

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c2 = a2+b2.—If c2 = a2 + b2 and a, b, c have no common factor, then c exceeds a or b by an odd square.

No two of a, b, c must have common factor, or all three would.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1909