[PLUG] Free temporary online repository question

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 03:16:11PM -0700, logical american wrote:
> On 3/23/2012 2:38 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
> > I am interested to know what is in the tables that they are 2 gig.
> > Triangles being fairly simple shapes, I am not sure what I could come
> > up with about them that would fill so much space.
> How about 54+ million of them, and they have a special requirement that 
> they be primitive Heron triangles?  The 5,4,3 triangle works, because 
> the sides are relatively prime to each other.  The 6,5,5 triangle also 
> works.  But the 10,8,6 triangle won't work.  Neither do most triangles, 
> like the 2,3,4 triangle, since the area of that triangle is not 
> rational.  Heron triangles have rational area.
> 
> See http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_07_28_03.html  about tetrahedrons.
 
I have a VM out there with 12G you can use temporarily.

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