59

This number is a prime.

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The smallest prime in the Pythagorean triangles (59, 1740, 1741) and (61, 1860, 1861), where each right triangle has two prime sides and the smallest pair of primes (59 and 61) are twin primes. [Hess and Palos]

Submitted: 1999-09-02 23:40:00; Last Modified: 2008-06-23 11:39:12.