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If anyone is interested in something almost as much fun as a seriated Polybius cipher, this programming challenge may or may not be hard. I don’t know. The challenge is to find a Pythagorean triple (x^2 + y^2 = z^2) where each number has more than 100 digits. To show you that it might be easy, here is one:

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But then again, maybe it’s hard.

What’s harder? Constructing examples or checking they are right?! Harry