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The Perfect Cube (Posted on 2003-08-12)

Can both n + 3 and n^2 + 3 be perfect cubes if n is an integer ?

See The Solution Submitted by Jayaram S

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re: A preliminary thought for half of a solution

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(In reply to A preliminary thought for half of a solution by Jason Asher)

Looks correct -- that takes care of half of them.

I don't see a similar analysis for even n.

Maybe some headway could be made mod p (p prime)?

Posted by Brian Wainscott on 2003-08-18 19:31:32

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