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The least square (Posted on 2005-11-05)

Positive integers a and b are such that (15a+16b) and (16a-15b) are perfect squares. Find the least possible value of the smaller of these two squares.

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Wrote a program to find it. So far, it's gone past all numbers a if b is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 9999 up to a=4387.

Posted by Joe on 2005-11-06 17:29:59

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