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Getting Squared With 1 And 16 (Posted on 2007-09-01) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Determine all possible integer pairs (p, q) that satisfy:

(p2 – q2)2 = 1+ 16q

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
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some general solutions | Comment 2 of 5 |

we have (p^2-q^2)^2=(p-q)^2(p+q)^2

so we can immediately get some generalized by haveing

p-q=16q+1 -> p=17q+1

p-q=-16q-1 -> p=-15q-1

p+q=16q+1 -> p=15q+1

p+q=-16q-1 -> p=-17q-1

thus we have that

q>=0 p=+-(17q+1)  p=+-(15q+1) generates solutions although not neccesarily all solutions.


  Posted by Daniel on 2007-09-02 05:37:51
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