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Another way to look at expressions of this type is as follows:

(a + b)^2
= (a + b)(a + b)
= a(a + b) + b(a + b)
= a^2 + ab + ba + b^2
= a^2 + 2ab + b^2

Note the use of the distributive property more than once here. Most people skip that, but that's the main idea.

>>3957805

Yeah we found two solutions in our run:

(a, b, c) = (256, 64, 32) and (9375, 625, 250)

You be trollin'.