Thank you.  Simple enough.  I knew I just needed the right construction.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred W. Helenius
To: math-fun
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [math-fun] Simple Question I think

At 01:20 PM 1/21/04, David Wilson wrote:

>Is every rational point on the plane equidistant from two integer points?

Yes.  Let the rational point be P = (p/q, r/s).  Arbitrarily suppose
that the midpoint of the integer points is the origin.  The line from
the origin to P is the perpendicular bisector of the line segment
between the integer points, so the slope of the latter must be -ps/qr.
Thus the integer points can be (qr,-ps) and (-qr,ps).

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Fred W. Helenius <fredh@ix.netcom.com>


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