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Conference rusure::math

Title:Mathematics at DEC
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2083
Total number of notes:14613

391.0. "Integer vol of isos tetr" by TOOLS::STAN () Thu Nov 28 1985 01:03

In Crux Mathematicorum 11(1985)163, Richard Guy asks for an
isosceles tetrahedron with integer edges, area of faces an integer,
and integer volume. This is equivalent to solving

   2
16A  = (a+b+c)(b+c-a)(c+a-b)(a+b-c)

and

   2     2    2    2   2    2   2   2    2    2
72V  = (b  + c  - a )(c  + a  -b )(a  + b  - c )

in integers.  He gives a solution, (a,b,c)=(148,195,203).

The question is: Is there a smaller solution?
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