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Sum three, get one (Posted on 2007-04-25) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Determine all possible positive integer solutions of this equation:

n! = a! + b! + c!

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Solution One and only one | Comment 1 of 4
Suppose c is the maximum of a, b, and c; it can be (n-1) tops, so the right hand side is, maximum, 3(n-1)!. If n is greater than 3, that will be less than n!, so n can be 3, tops.

For n=3, a=b=c=2 is the obvious solution.

For n=1 or 2, the left hand side is less than 3, so that cannot work.

  Posted by Old Original Oskar! on 2007-04-25 10:06:05
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