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#451 2010-05-16 21:05:11

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5863: There is a right triangle with the hypotenuse equaling:


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#452 2010-05-16 21:51:30

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bobbym wrote:

5863: There is a right triangle with the hypotenuse equaling:

up

And the sum of the sum of the digits of the hypotenuse and the sum of the digits of the sum of the squares of the other two sides is 13 + 13 + 13 + 13 + 13.

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#453 2010-05-16 21:59:43

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5890 there is no right triangle with a hypotenuse of 5890 units.


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#454 2010-05-16 22:18:45

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bobbym wrote:

there is no right triangle with a hypotenuse of 5890 units.

What about 3534 : 4712 : 5890?

There is no right triangle with a hypotenuse of 5903 units.

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#455 2010-05-16 22:29:19

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Yea, that squirrely program missed that one!

There are only 8 right triangles with a hypotenuse of 5916 and sides of a,b:

a = 1584  b = 5700
a = 1860   b = 5616
a = 2784  b=  5220
a = 4080  b = 4284
a = 4284  b = 4080
a = 5220  b = 2784
a = 5616  b = 1860
a = 5700  b = 1584


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#456 2010-05-16 22:32:04

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Oops! I can't add up! sad

My post #452 should had been about the number 5876, not 5877.

This should get us back on track:

59 - 28 is 13 backwards

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#457 2010-05-16 22:37:30

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#458 2010-05-16 22:49:07

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#459 2010-05-16 22:51:37

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#460 2010-05-16 23:16:03

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5967(catchup)

There are 4 (ie, 1 + 3) right-angled triangles with a hypotenuse of 5980 (ie, 5+9-8^0 = 13) units.

They are:

1472 : 5796 : 5980
2300 : 5520 : 5980
3036 : 5152 : 5980
3588 : 4784 : 5980

These 12 numbers sum to 55568...and 5+5+5+6-8 = 13


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#461 2010-05-16 23:17:18

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3*9 - 5 - 9 = 13


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#462 2010-05-16 23:24:56

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6 Zero Hero 6  cool
Its a Palindrome!  sleep


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#463 2010-05-17 02:44:05

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6019

CONCATENATE(6^0*1,SQRT(9)) = 13


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#464 2010-05-17 02:47:27

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6032


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#465 2010-05-17 02:55:10

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#466 2010-05-17 02:58:21

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6058

No Three Positive Integers X, Y, Z satisfy....
X[sup]6058[/sup] + Y[sup]6058[/sup] = Z[sup]6058[/sup]  what

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#467 2010-05-17 04:11:06

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#468 2010-05-17 04:11:34

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6084 = 78^2 = 30^2 + 72^2


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#469 2010-05-17 04:22:38

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#470 2010-05-17 04:24:46

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6110 = 35^2 + 39^2 + 58^2


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#471 2010-05-17 05:07:11

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Btw, Bobby, WolframAlpha couldn't handle the sum in my post #458. It conks out at the second power when square roots are combined with factorials (eg, sqrt(5!^9!) works, but sqrt(5!^9!^4!) doesn't). Without the square root, a "power of 10 representation" is given for many powers, but no "decimal approximation" after two powers.

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#472 2010-05-17 05:16:09

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6136 = 22^2 + 36^2 + 66^2

6*3 + 1 - 6 = 13

You edited your post as I finished mine, I have edited this one with the new answers.

That is because it cannot deal with this :

That is what you are trying to get an answer to.That will cause an overflow.

That number in scientific notation is:


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#473 2010-05-17 05:43:26

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My little 143KB calculator handled that post #458 sum. It's accurate to 10,000 digits...which I've checked many times against W|A. It's generally very quick, but extremely slow at max capacity.

Did you check that post's sum? I've got nothing I can use to verify my calculator's results on that one, and I don't know of any website that would do it. What did you use for your calcs in your last post?

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#474 2010-05-17 06:21:42

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My little 143KB calculator handled that post #458 sum. It's accurate to 10,000 digits...which I've checked many times against W|A. It's generally very quick, but extremely slow at max capacity.

Sometimes different things do better or worse. Also did that program get the right answer? Did it evaluate the tower from top down or from bottom up? This is very important.

There are programs that can handle larger numbers than mathematica or maple. Maxima is one and so can Derive.

To get my answer I had to write a program for large power towers.

Okay,

6162 = 29^2 + 40^2 + 61^2


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#475 2010-05-18 03:38:22

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Hi Bobby,

Also did that program get the right answer?

I don't know, as I've got nothing that can check it and I don't know where to look for something that can handle such large numbers (other than downloading one of those programs you mentioned and trying it out there).

Did it evaluate the tower from top down or from bottom up?

From bottom up. I tried it from top down last night, and after an hour or more it said the numbers were too large. So I guess it did some truncating (or something else) upwards that it couldn't do downwards.

That probably means my answer is incorrect...and my pretty picture too. sad

Would you be able to check that for me?


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