18 Jul
2018
18 Jul
'18
1:52 p.m.
I recently saw the following claim: "On the average, the number of ways of expressing a positive integer n as a sum of two integral squares, x^2 + y^2 = n, is pi" Can anyone confirm or deny this? Thanks. Colin -- Some of you may have had occasion to run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore how they got that way, ... -- Tom Lehrer