/sci/ - Help Retards With Their Math Homework So They Learn Neither The Material Nor Critical Thinking Skills For Themselves And They End Up Failing Higher Level Courses
I'm not certain how you would approach this beyond trial and error (Obviously could use some sort of modular arithmetic to speed it up, but can't see how it would provide a nice solution)
Is there actually a "nice" answer, or is it some bullshit you have to spot?
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Anonymous2009-01-28 21:05
I found one, but it has three and a half million digits. (seriously) Recursive pythagorean triples.
So 3613^2 = 3^2 + 4^2 + 12^2 + 84^2 + 3612^2, and with the same method you can construct squares that are sums of however many squares you want. I ran it in mathematica, and the number of digits doubles with each step.