How to find pythagorean triplets in an array faster ??

Pythagorean triplet is a set {a,b,c} such that a2 = b2 + c2. Example: for array [9, 2, 3, 4, 8, 5, 6, 10] the output of the algorithm should be {3, 4, 5} and {6, 8, 10}.generate an algorithm for doing so.

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  1. if (a, b, c) is a Pythagorean triple, then so is (ka, kb, kc) for any positive integer.

    so simply find one value for a, b, and c and then you can calculate as many new ones as you want.

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  2. Square each element. (This takes O(n) time). This will reduce the original task to "find three numbers in array, one of which is the sum of other two".

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