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Quintic Minimum (Posted on 2023-04-13)

7²² can be expressed as the sum of n positive perfect fifth powers. What is the minimum value for n?

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| Comment 3 of 4 |

I reran the same program but reversed the order of the loop;

I replaced:

for n in range(5229,2,-1):

with

for n in range(1,5230):

And I got the same result.

Posted by Larry on 2023-04-13 12:48:56

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