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Erdős–Ulam problem


In mathematics, the Erdős–Ulam problem asks whether the plane contains a dense set of points whose Euclidean distances are all rational numbers. It is named after Paul Erdős and Stanislaw Ulam.

The Erdős–Anning theorem states that a set of points with integer distances must either be finite or lie on a single line. However, there are other infinite sets of points with rational distances. For instance, on the unit circle, let S be the set of points

where is restricted to values that cause to be a rational number. For each such point, both and are themselves both rational, and if and define two points in S, then their distance is the rational number


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