240 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? 435 x 311 xX 311 PR EE SE a Pe 1309 ’ ieee i rE rere ec ang rea [reece aes DUES Long Multiplication back to your childhood. Do you recall being taught long multiplication at school? Take a look at the next illustration and it will all come flooding back. Once you learn the process of long multiplication you can follow the rules and get the right answer for any similar problem every time. To do this, you lay out the calculation in a particular format and apply the logic. Multiply each number by a single digit of the other number and then add the results together. Diophantine problems are a little more complex than long multiplication and some of them are a bit abstruse. But there is one very famous Diophantine problem we can all recite. “The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides” The equation for a Pythagorean triangle. The theorem applies to right-angled triangles and there are sixteen whole number solutions, known as Pythagorean triples; three, four, five; is one example. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015930