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Take Biquadratic, Get Prime (Posted on 2007-06-10) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Determine all possible positive primes m such that 7m4 – 3942 is a positive prime number.

  Submitted by K Sengupta    
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m=3 gives 7m^4 – 3942 = -3375< 0. This is a contradiction.

m=5 gives 7m^4 – 3942 = 433, which is a prime number.

All primes m>5 must possess the form j Mod 10, when j= 1, 3, 7, 9, so that:
m^4 Mod 10= j^4 Mod 10 = 1.

Thus, (7*m^4 – 3942) Mod 5 = 0, whenever m is a prime number greater than 5.

Consequently, m = 5 is the only possible solution.

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solutionxdog2007-06-11 10:54:54
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