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Divide The Cubic, Get The Pairs (Posted on 2007-05-26)

Find all possible positive integers (p,q) with p≤q such that (q³+1)/(pq-1) is an integer.

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re(2): Solution (spoiler)

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(In reply to re: Solution (spoiler) by Dej Mar)

I missed that. In my analysis, the constraint q>=p never got used, so I forgot about it.

Posted by Brian Smith on 2007-05-27 14:32:40

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