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Given a Pythagorean Triple
, the fractions
and
are called Pythagorean fractions. Diophantus
showed that the Pythagorean fractions consist precisely of fractions of the form
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References
Conway, J. H. and Guy, R. K. ``Pythagorean Fractions.'' In The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag,
pp. 171-173, 1996.