>>>>> "logical" == logical american <website.read...@gmail.com> writes:

logical> 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.

logical> How about 54+ million of them, and they have a special
logical> requirement that they be primitive Heron triangles?  The
logical> 5,4,3 triangle works, because the sides are relatively prime
logical> to each other.  The 6,5,5 triangle also works.  But the
logical> 10,8,6 triangle won't work.  Neither do most triangles, like
logical> the 2,3,4 triangle, since the area of that triangle is not
logical> rational.  Heron triangles have rational area.

logical> See http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_07_28_03.html about
logical> tetrahedrons.

Cool!  Howabout gzip, bzip2 or xz?  I.e., does compression help?


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