On HAP triangles
It is a well known and easily verifiable fact that not all integer triangles have integer areas. Consider the triangles with sides {9, 10, 17}, {13, 14, 15}, {5, 7, 8} and {6, 7, 9} with respective areas 36, 84, and . The first two, whose areas are integers, are called Heronian triangles. The second triangle also has the additional property that its sides are consecutive integers and is an example of a Brahmagupta triangle, named after an Indian mathematician, born in AD 598. These are called Super-Heronian triangles in [1] and a method is developed there for generating examples of such triangles.
Authors
- Emrys Read
Institutions
- Bethel University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Mathematical Gazette
- Published
- 2025-06-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2025.10079
- Primary Topic
- Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00