A Note on Generating Almost Pythagorean Triples

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Authors John Rafael M. Antalan, Mark D. Tomenes

Publication date 30 August 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary number theory (11A99) Counting solutions of Diophantine equations (11D45)

Abstract: In 1987, Orrin Frink introduced the concept of almost Pythagorean triples. He defined them as an ordered triple $(x,y,z)$ that satisfies the equation $x^2+y^2=z^2+1$ where $x,y$ and $z$ are positive integers. In his paper, he showed that there were infinitely many almost Pythagorean triples by giving a characterization which suggests a method on generating all of them. However, this method does not explicitly and readily give a particular almost Pythagorean triple. In this note, using basic algebraic operations, we extend his result by giving a characterization that explicitly and readily give a particular almost Pythagorean triple.

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