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Integral solutions of hyperboloid $x^2+y^2-z^2=1$

Are there integral solutions to the equation $x^2+y^2-z^2=1$?
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Finding integer coordinates on a sphere's surface [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Integer coordinate set of points that is a member of sphere surface Assume $C$ is a sphere with radius $r$ and center in the origin (0,0,0). How can we find the set of ...
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rational triangles and cosines

I've recently started to try working on exercises from this book on Diophantine equations before I need to return it to the library. This one has me slightly stumped. It asks to show that the cosine ...
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Heronian triangles

How to prove that all Heronian triangles can be found using formulas described here? I understand that the described substitution will give Heronian triangle, but how to prove that using the ...
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2answers
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Heronian triangle Generator

I'm trouble shooting my code I wrote to generate all Heronian Triangles (triangle with integer sides and integer area). I'm using the following algorithm $$a=n(m^{2}+k^{2})$$ $$b=m(n^{2}+k^{2})$$ ...
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Integer coordinate set of points that is a member of sphere surface

I have a graphic application to develop which involve many spheres. I should determine then on run time. Supposing that I have a sphere of radius r, how can I determine the sub set of the sphere ...
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Does $a^2+b^2=1$ have infinitely many solutions for $a,b\in\mathbb{Q}$?

Does $a^2+b^2=1$ have infinitely many solutions for $a,b\in\mathbb{Q}$? I'm fairly certain it does, but I'm hoping to see a rigorous proof of this statement. Thanks. Here is my motivation. I'm ...
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Primitive integer triangles

Consider the triangles with integer sides a, b and c with a ≤ b ≤ c. An integer sided triangle (a,b,c) is called primitive if gcd(a,b,c)=1. How many primitive integer sided triangles exist with a ...