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A prime GCD adventure (Posted on 2024-05-03)

Determine the greatest common divisor of the numbers p⁶-7p²+6 where p runs through the prime numbers p≥11.

No Solution Yet Submitted by Danish Ahmed Khan

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re: I don't know the interpretation.

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I was also uncertain of the interpretation since there is some ambiguity in the expression "where p runs through the prime numbers p≥11".

I assumed that meant that the smallest p to consider was 11. But it could also mean from 2 to 11, from 2 to 13, from 2 to 17, etc.

Posted by Larry on 2024-05-03 12:27:34

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