What are the two smallest positive whole numbers the difference of whose squares is a cube and the difference of whose cubes is a square ?
(In reply to
re(3): And after that there's... by Tristan)
I can go along with using the sum of the two numbers as the size criterion. Then Charlie's program does verify that 6 and 10 are smallest. I wonder what Ravi Raja really meant here, though. Maybe the official solution will tell us.
Edited on December 7, 2003, 3:10 pm
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Posted by Richard
on 2003-12-07 15:07:21 |