I just happened upon this extra nifty little fact - the set of sums of two squares is closed under multiplication.
That is, facts like (102 + 92) × (12 + 12) = 192 + 12 occur for every
(a2 + b2) × (c2 + d2).
Take a look - simple result, I am surprised I hadn't seen it before...
See the Brahmagupta-Fibonacci identity at Wikipedia
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