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Product 2 Power Not (Posted on 2008-07-12) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Prove that there does not exist any triplet (A, B, C) of positive integers, that satisfy this equation:

                                (36A + B)(36B + A) = 2C

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
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like it | Comment 2 of 6 |

That's neat, Gamer.

My solution was to express both factors as powers of 2, subtract, and derive a division contradiction, but your solution is much slicker.

 


  Posted by xdog on 2008-07-12 22:37:13
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