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Every Pythagorean triple

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The problem

Call positive integers a primitive Pythagorean triple if and . Such a triple has exactly one even leg; call it .

Show that every primitive triple has the form

for coprime integers of opposite parity, and that every such pair gives one.

There is an algebraic proof by factoring, and a geometric one that draws lines through a point on a circle.

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