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A009112 Areas of Pythagorean triangles: numbers which can be the area of a right-angled triangle with integer sides. 17
6, 24, 30, 54, 60, 84, 96, 120, 150, 180, 210, 216, 240, 270, 294, 330, 336, 384, 480, 486, 504, 540, 546, 600, 630, 720, 726, 750, 756, 840, 864, 924, 960, 990, 1014, 1080, 1176, 1224, 1320, 1344, 1350, 1386, 1470, 1500, 1536, 1560, 1620, 1710, 1716, 1734, 1890 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Number of terms < 10^k for increasing values of k: 1, 7, 34, 150, 636, 2536, 9757, 35987, 125350, 407538, ..., .

All terms are divisible by 6.

REFERENCES

S. Mohanty and S. P. Mohanty, Pythagorean Numbers, Fibonacci Quarterly 28 (1990), 31-42

B. Miller, Nasty Numbers, The Mathematics Teacher 73 (1980) page 649

LINKS

R. Knott, Pythagorean Triangles

EXAMPLE

30 belongs to the sequence as the area of the triangle (5,12,13) is 30.

6 is in the sequence because it is the area of the 3-4-5 triangle is the integer 6.

MATHEMATICA

lst = {}; Do[ If[ IntegerQ[c = Sqrt[a^2 + b^2]], AppendTo[lst, a*b/2]; lst = Union@ lst], {a, 4, 180}, {b, a - 1, Floor[ Sqrt[a]], -1}]; Take[lst, 51] (*From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), 23 Nov 2010*)

PROG

(PARI) is_A009112(n)={ my(N=1+#n=divisors(2*n)); for( i=1, N\2, issquare(n[i]^2+n[N-i]^2) & return(1)) } \\ - M. F. Hasler, Dec 09 2010

(Sage) is_A009112 = lambda n: any(is_square(a**2+(2*n/a)**2) for a in divisors(2*n)) # [D. S. McNeil, Dec 09 2010]

CROSSREFS

Union of A009111, A009127, A024365, A177021.

Sequence in context: A131906 A046131 A009111 * A057101 A057228 A132398

Adjacent sequences:  A009109 A009110 A009111 * A009113 A009114 A009115

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net)

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