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A prime and a cube (Posted on 2020-07-13) Difficulty: 2 of 5
What prime numbers p exist such that 16p+1 is a perfect cube?

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This program

   10   repeat
   20     P=nxtprm(P)
   30     C=16*P+1
   40     Cr=int(C^(1/3)+0.5)
   50     if Cr*Cr*Cr=C then print P,C,Cr
   60   until 0

found 16*307 + 1 = 4913 = 17^3 almost right away. It's now chugging along without having found any more. I'm about to check the current value of P: it's 583969 and still going without finding a second one.

  Posted by Charlie on 2020-07-13 15:23:45
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