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A343892
Side b of integer-sided primitive triangles (a, b, c) where side a is the harmonic mean of the 2 other sides b and c, i.e., 2/a = 1/b + 1/c with b < a < c.
7
3, 10, 12, 15, 21, 30, 36, 35, 40, 44, 55, 56, 52, 63, 65, 78, 70, 90, 77, 105, 99, 85, 102, 119, 132, 136, 117, 114, 143, 133, 126, 152, 171, 154, 182, 168, 165, 210, 195, 161, 176, 184, 208, 207, 187, 240, 230, 253, 200, 221, 198, 255, 225, 234, 216, 275, 300, 306, 247, 270
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The triples (a, b, c) are displayed in increasing order of side a, and if sides a coincide then in increasing order of the side b.
The sequence is not increasing because a(7) = 36 > a(8) = 35, but, these sides b are listed in increasing order in A020890.
The first term appearing twice is 330 and corresponds to triples (435, 330, 638) and (460, 330, 759), the second one is 462 and corresponds to triples (483, 462, 506) and (532, 462, 627).
For the corresponding primitive triples and miscellaneous properties and references, see A343891.
FORMULA
a(n) = A343891(n, 2).
EXAMPLE
a(4) = 15, because the fourth triple is (21, 15, 35) with side b = 15, satisfying 1/15 = 2/21 - 1/35 and 31-15 < 21 < 31+15.
MAPLE
for a from 4 to 200 do
for b from floor(a/2)+1 to a-1 do
c := a*b/(2*b-a);
if c=floor(c) and igcd(a, b, c)=1 and c-b<a then print(b); end if;
end do;
end do;
CROSSREFS
Cf. A343891 (triples), A020883 (side a), A343893 (side c), A343894 (perimeter).
Cf. A020890 (sides b ordered).
Sequence in context: A283770 A088338 A020890 * A358892 A358893 A317671
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Bernard Schott, May 06 2021
STATUS
approved