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An Atypical Evaluation (Posted on 2006-08-13)

Determine all possible positive integers x and y such that 3^x-2^y=17.

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I agree with Charlies answer.

Used Excel's solver function and also only got x = 4 and y = 6.

Posted by Gregor on 2006-08-14 08:22:20

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