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What are the dimensions of this triangle?

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We want to find the smallest, right-angled triangle for which holds:

The lengths of the sides are whole numbers.
The circumference is the square of a whole number.
The area is a whole number to the power of three.

To help you a bit: the length of the hypotenuse is 240.

What are the dimensions of this triangle?

posted Jun 30, 2014 by Anuradha Tabyal

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