Posted by Iago Camboa on June 14, 2002, at 5:28:36
In reply to Iago, are you a mathematician? » Iago Camboa, posted by IsoM on June 13, 2002, at 21:29:26
That large 'prime Pythagorean triangle' is 'mine' yes (Jul 8, 1999), though unfortunately I myself in no way compare with the two great mathematicians you quote, namely [Harvey] Dubner & [Tony] Forbes. Those yes are 'great indeed' & both score countless 1st order contributions to 'Contemporary Number Theory'. That little contribution of mine was remarkable at the time only because those primes were found 4 days only
after Harvey himself introduced the very concept of '(large) Pythagorean triangles with prime leg and hypotenuse' (in a post to a 'list' of N. Dakota Uni.) and gave the first examples thereof. I just put one of my computers at the job and was fortunate enough to hit a much greater 'jackpot' in less than 4 days (it could have taken weeks or months...). The 'lucky' primes were:A=1491*2^17783+1 (5,357 digits)
C=((1491*2^17783+1)^2+1)/2 (10,713 digits)(These can of course be checked to be prime in less than a minute in any ordinary modern PC- finding them was quite another story though)
[off topic all the time, sorry...]
> I'm curious if you work in mathematics at all as two mathematicians (Dubner & Forbes) were informed about a large prime Pythagorean triangle by a Iago Camboa. Was that you? The name isn't that common here but perhaps it's more common in the Mediterranean area.
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