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"""
Exercise  4
"""
def main():
    #Input from the user to set the limit number.
    limit = int(input("Please enter the limit number: "))
    counter = 0
    if (limit < 5):
        print("\nNo existing triplet with this limit.")  
    else:
    # The lowest triplet is 3, 4, 5 - we started each operator from the lowest triplet.
        for c in range (5, limit+1):
            # 'b' cannot surpass 'c', by stopping at 'c' we actually stop at c-1 - which means 'b' will never be greater than 'c'.
            for b in range (4, c):
                # b is set to be bigger than a to avoid printing a triplet twice - for example 3 4 5 and 4 3 5.
                for a in range (3, b):
                    #The formula for the Pythagorean theorem.
                    if (a**2 + b**2 == c**2):
                        print ("a =", a ,"| b =", b ,"| c =", c)
                        #Every time the loop repeats itself, counter will add 1 to the amount of triplets.
                        counter += 1
        print("\nThe amount of Pythagorean triplets you have is:", counter)
main()