Pythagorean triples map
- Author:
- Vincent Pantaloni
15/8/17 is/was a #PythagoreanDay
This map shows all the right triangles with integer sides (a,b,c) in a certain range. They have been rescaled so that they all have a hypotenuse of 1.
These (a,b,c) are known as pythagorean triples.
Euclid found the three fromulas given for a, b, c to generate all these triples in terms of two integer parameters m and n with m>n.
Use the sliders to choose m and n and see the corresponding right triangle.