"Two sides and a non-included angle" --- the one case when a triangle is not uniquely specified by three of its six angles and sides. Knew that would prove useful some day ... WFL On 7/12/18, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
This makes perfect sense. Notice that if you take the sum of the varying values, you get the longest side: 3+5 = 8, 7+8 = 15, 5+16 = 21.
In other words, the "average length" of the varying side is half the long side.
This all becomes completely clear if you imagine putting a compass at the vertex between the two constant sides, and opening it to the length of the "hypotenuse" (which is, counterintuitively, the side of median length, not the longest side, which is a leg). When you sweep the compass, it cuts the opposite side in two places, producing the two lengths of the variable side.
The Pythagoroid Formula for the sixty-degree case is A^2 + B^2 = C^2 + AB. So, 64 + 9 = 49 + 24 for the first triple, and 64 + 25 = 49 + 40 for the second.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
{7 | 8 | 3, 7 | 8 | 5, 13 | 15 | 7, 13 | 15 | 8, 19 | 21 | 5, 19 | 21 | 16, 31 | 35 | 11, 31 | 35 | 24, . . ., 859 | 989 | 429, 859 | 989 | 560, 889 | 999 | 295, 889 | 999 | 704,. . . Sometimes very close pairs: 181 | 209 | 104, 181 | 209 | 105, . . ., 2521 | 2911 | 1455, 2521 | 2911 | 1456, . . . --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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