Back in the early 1990s I was going through books in the college library and found one on numerical results of different 3-body starting configurations. I vivi

Back in the early 1990s I was going through books in the college library and found one on numerical results of different 3-body starting configurations. I vividly remember the Pythagorean three-body problem example, and how it required special treatment for the close interactions. Which made me very pleased to see that configuration used as the example here.