Self-hatred

Project Euler Problem #9

Okay, this one was tough. Not in the computation – it took me about an hour to refine and submit my solution once I Googled the algorithm; my real problem was in completely understand the requirements of the question, and what it implied. I looked up the Pythagorean triplet, and the history of it.
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using System;

public class Nine
{
	static void Main()
	{
		int a = 0;
		int b = 0;
		int c = 0;

		for (int i = 2; i < 50; i++)
			for (int j = 1; j < i; j++)
			{
				a = (i * i) - (j * j);
				b = 2 * i * j;
				c = (i * i) + (j * j);

				if (a + b + c == 1000)
				{
					Console.WriteLine("n{0}n", a * b * c);
					break;
				}
			}
	}
}

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