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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