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| | + | ==Corollary: No three lines with odd prime numbers as lengths can form a right triangle== |
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| − | ==Corollary: No three lines with prime numbers as lengths can form a right triangle==
| + | Indirect proof: Let's describe a situation where lines with the lengths of three odd prime numbers ''do'' form a right triangle and see what follows. |
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| − | Indirect proof: Let's describe a situation where lines with the lengths of three prime numbers ''do'' form a right triangle and see what follows. | |
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| | ===Conceptualization=== | | ===Conceptualization=== |
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| − | Let's call the two prime legs ''l''<sub>1</sub> and ''l''<sub>2</sub> and ''h'' the prime hypoteneuse. | + | Let's call the two odd prime legs ''l''<sub>1</sub> and ''l''<sub>2</sub> and ''h'' the odd prime hypoteneuse. |
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| | + | One definition of odd prime number ''op'' is that it is an odd natural number with no positive integral factor ''f'' other than one and itself. |
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| − | One definition of a prime number ''p'' is that it is a natural number with no positive integral factor ''f'' greater than one and less than itself.
| + | ===Hypothesis=== |
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| − | ===Second hypothesis===
| + | :Simple assumption: The hypoteneuse is always larger than either of its lengths. |
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| − | Conditional sub-proof of indirect proof: Let's introduce a second hypothesis and see what follows from it.
| + | That is, it is to be proven that the first proposition (that is, the proposition that is the simple assumption, the ''assumption for a conditional proof'') leads to the second. |
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| − | :Simple assumption: One or more sets of ''two'' natural numbers, a pair ''n'' and ''o'', for example, exist that have a positive integral factor ''f'' apart from one and themselves and common to both of them.
| + | ===Conceptualization (cont'd)=== |
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| − | :Corollary to assumption: Through the definition of prime numbers such as described in the first "conceptualization" section, if any pair of positive integers ''n'' and ''o'' have an common integral factor ''f'' apart from one and themselves, they are not prime because they ''both'' have a non-prime type of positive integral factor; in fact it's the same one.
| + | The conceptualization of the Pythagorean theorem in the case of the three odd prime numbers, that is using the ''assumption for an indirect proof'' is therefore: ''l''<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup> + ''l''<sub>2</sub><sup>2</sup> = ''h''<sup>2</sup>. |
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| − | Conditional sub-proof to be proven: ''Assuming no pair of prime numbers can possess the qualities of the pair set with the described factor, no three lines having prime numbers as lengths can form a right triangle.''
| + | ====Reasoning==== |
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| − | That is, it is to be proven that the first proposition (that is, the proposition that is the simple assumption, the ''assumption for a conditional proof'') leads to the second.
| + | 1. Let's divide one of the two odd prime number "''h''" factors contained in the "''h''<sup>2</sup>" by both sides of the equation: |
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| − | ===Conceptualization (cont'd)===
| + | :(''l''<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup> / ''h'') + (''l''<sub>2</sub><sup>2</sup> / ''h'') = ''h''. |
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| − | The conceptualization of the Pythagorean theorem in the case of the three prime numbers, that is using the ''assumption for an indirect proof'' is therefore: ''l''<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup> + ''l''<sub>2</sub><sup>2</sup> = ''h''<sup>2</sup>.
| + | 2. And since ''l''<sub>1</sub> and ''l''<sub>2</sub> are whole numbers, that which results when they are multiplied by themselves, namely ''l''<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup> and ''l''<sub>2</sub><sup>2</sup>, certainly are as well. |
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| | [[Category:Plane Geometry]] | | [[Category:Plane Geometry]] |
| | [[Category:Mathematics]] | | [[Category:Mathematics]] |
| | [[Category:Geometric Theorems]] | | [[Category:Geometric Theorems]] |