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Any Pythagorean triple — including 3, 4, and 5 — also gives the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle.
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 16 Sep. 2025
Vega, Deneb and Altair make a right triangle with the right angle at Deneb, this is called the Summer Triangle.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
That is to say, each of their proofs demonstrates that the square of a right triangle’s longest side equals the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
For example, Pythagorean triples (such as 3, 4 and 5), represent right triangles whose three vertices are all integer distances apart.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 16 Sep. 2025
Vega, Deneb and Altair make a right triangle with the right angle at Deneb, this is called the Summer Triangle.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
That is to say, each of their proofs demonstrates that the square of a right triangle’s longest side equals the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
For example, Pythagorean triples (such as 3, 4 and 5), represent right triangles whose three vertices are all integer distances apart.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
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“Right triangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right%20triangle. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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