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A181925 Area A of the triangles such that A, the sides, and at least one of the three bisectors are integers. 1
12, 48, 60, 108, 120, 168, 192, 240, 300, 360, 420, 432, 480, 540, 588, 660, 672, 768, 960, 972, 1008, 1080, 1092, 1200, 1260, 1344, 1440, 1452, 1500, 1512, 1680, 1728, 1848, 1920, 1980, 2028, 2160, 2352, 2448, 2520, 2640, 2688, 2700, 2772, 2940, 3000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The area A of a triangle whose sides have lengths a, b, and c is given by Heron's formula: A = sqrt(s*(s-a)*(s-b)*(s-c)), where s = (a+b+c)/2.
The lengths of the bisectors are given by:
b1 = sqrt(bc*(b+c-a)(a+b+c))/(b+c)
b2 = sqrt(ac*(a+c-b)(a+b+c))/(a+c)
b3 = sqrt(ab*(a+b-c)(a+b+c))/(a+b)
Properties of this sequence: There exist three subsets of numbers included in a(n):
Case (i): A subset with a majority of isosceles triangles whose area equals the sum of the areas of two Pythagorean triangles with integer sides => the sequence A118903 is included in this sequence. This sort of triangles contains generally only one integer bisector, but more rarely three integer bisectors (see the examples).
Case (ii): Right triangles (a,b,c) where a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
Case (iii): A class of non-isosceles and non-right triangles (a, b, c) where one, two or three bisectors are integers.
REFERENCES
Ralph H. Buchholz, On triangles with rational altitudes, angles bisectors or medians, PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle, Nov 1989.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Angle Bisectors
EXAMPLE
Case (i): 12 is in the sequence because the area of the isosceles triangle (5, 5, 6) equals 12 and one of the bisectors is integer (4). But the isosceles triangle (546, 975, 975) whose area equals 255528 contains three integer bisectors: 936, 560, 560.
Case (ii): The right triangle (28, 96, 100) => A = 1344, and the integer median is m = 35.
Case (iii): The triangle (31091676, 46267375, 62553491) => A = 690494511777840, and the three bisectors are 51555075, 38342304 and 22314600.
MAPLE
with(numtheory):T:=array(1..1000):k:=0:nn:=300:for a from 1 to nn do: for b from a to nn do: for c from b to nn do:p:=(a+b+c)/2:s:=p*(p-a)*(p-b)*(p-c):aa:=b*c*(b+c-a)*(a+b+c): bb:=a*c*(a+c-b)*(a+b+c): cc:=a*b*(a+b-c)*(a+b+c):if s>0 and aa>0 and bb>0 and cc>0 then s1:=sqrt(s): aa1:=sqrt(aa)/(b+c): bb1:=sqrt(bb)/(a+c): cc1:=sqrt(cc)/(a+b):if s1=floor(s1) and (aa1=floor(aa1) or bb1=floor(bb1) or cc1=floor(cc1)) then k:=k+1:T[k]:=s1:else fi:fi:od:od:od: L := [seq(T[i], i=1..k)]:L1:=convert(T, set):A:=sort(L1, `<`): print(A):
MATHEMATICA
nn=300; lst={}; Do[s=(a+b+c)/2; If[IntegerQ[s], area2=s (s-a) (s-b) (s-c); aa=b*c*(b+c-a)*(a+b+c); bb=a*c*(a+c-b)*(a+b+c); cc=a*b*(a+b-c)*(a+b+c); If[0 < area2 && aa > 0 && bb > 0 && cc > 0 && IntegerQ[Sqrt[area2]] && (IntegerQ[Sqrt[aa]/(b+c)] || IntegerQ[Sqrt[bb]/(a+c)] || IntegerQ[Sqrt[cc]/(a+b)]), AppendTo[lst, Sqrt[area2]]]], {a, nn}, {b, a}, {c, b}]; Union[lst]
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A124351 A335101 A230919 * A118903 A324747 A044114
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Michel Lagneau, Apr 02 2012
STATUS
approved

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