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by AwesomeToad, Dec 16, 2010, 3:27 AM

A lot.

What is the least possible perimeter of a triangle whose side lengths are consecutive perfect squares?

Majority rule!

How do people get 0/6s on these things. The hardest problem on the test was:

At random, I choose 3 different points form among 2010 points, evenly spaced on a circle. What is the probability they form a right triangle.

N = 3
N += 1

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No, it's a triangle with 0, 1, and 4, so the answer is 5.

by dragon96, Dec 16, 2010, 3:59 AM

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No, it's
$(-1)^2 = 1$ ,
$(0)^2 = 0$ , and
$(1)^2 = 1$ .
So the perimeter is $1 + 0 + 1 = 2$ .

EDIT: The "triangle equality" applies here.

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^win

Yay for speed CAMLing.

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