[galewind]

today I was working on teaching students how to solve right triangles using both the Pythagorean Theorem and trig. I used a Pyth. Triple that just happened to be 16, 30, X. When students found the value of X^2 to be 1156, I fondly remembered working with this Brazilian team our rookie year at the NJ regional at the RAC back in 2003. Two consecutive perfect squares working together perfectly. (33^2 = 1089, 34^2 = 1156). I still have my 1156 team shirt that I pulled out last week!