Using Series to Construct Pythagorean Triples

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Darien DeWolf St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

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Balakrishnan Viswanathan Quest University of Canada, Squamish, British Columbia

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This article provides a series-focused approach to computing Pythagorean triples.

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