Given Pythagorean Line ay = bx

Where a^2 + b^2 = c^2

For Natural Numbers a, b and c

Show ax + by = c Is Tangent To

x^2 + y^2 = 1 at (a/c, b/c)

Rational Points

For Pythagorean triple {3, 4, 5} we have a rational point (3/5, 4/5) on a unit circle.

Show that y = (4/3)x is a radial line of the circle passing through (3/5, 4/5).

Find the equation of the line perpendicular to y = 4/3 x that has (3/5, 4/5) on it. Keep your numbers in fraction form.

This time use a, b, and c in the general slope intercept form for your general answers. We will call the line given by your answer, y = (-a/b)x + (c/b) a "pythagoperp" line. That is a line that passes through a rational point on a unit circle and is perpendicular to a radial line at that rational point. A pythagoperp line is tangent to a unit circle at the rational point of tangency.


Pythagorean Triples Points on a unit circle.
Finding Pythagorean Triples Lines through a unit circle.
Pythagorean Triples overlap parts 3, 4 and 5
Pythagorean Triples Indexed Into Series
Problems for math classes

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