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Special Natural Numbers (Posted on 2007-10-14) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Find all natural numbers which can be written in the form (a+b+c)2/(abc) where a,b,c are also natural numbers.

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re(2): Some were discovered.... | Comment 3 of 8 |
(In reply to re: Some were discovered.... by Brian Smith)

Interesting patterns I found were the following:

Those that resulted in the natural number 9 would, by multiplying each of a, b, and c by 3 and 9 would give the natural numbers 3 and 1 respectively.

Those that resulted in the natural number 8 would, by multiplying each of a, b, and c by 2, 4, and 8 would give the natural numbers 4, 2 and 1 respectively.

Those that resulted in the natural number 6 would, by multiplying each of a, b, and c by 2, 3, and 6 would give the natural numbers 3, 2 and 1 respectively.

Those that resulted in the natural number 5 would, by multiplying each of a, b, and c by 5 would give the natural number 1.

 

The following are some of the finds:

 a    b    c  (a+b+c)2/(abc)
 1    1    1        9
 3    3    3        3
 9    9    9        1

 1    1    2        8
 2    2    4        4
 4    4    8        2
 8    8   16        1

 1    1    4        9
 3    3   12        3
 9    9   36        1

 1    2    3        6
 2    4    6        3
 3    6    9        2
 6   12   18        1

 1    2    9        8
 2    4   18        4
 4    8   36        2
 8   16   72        1

 1    3    8        6
 2    6   16        3
 3    9   24        2
 6   18   48        1

 1    4    5        5
 5   20   25        1

 1    4   25        9
 3   12   75        3
 9   36  225        1

 1    5    9        5
 5   25   45        1

 1    8   27        6
 2   16   54        3
 3   24   81        2
 6   48  162        1

 1    9   20        5
 5   45  100        1

 1    9   50        8
 2   18  100        4
 4   36  200        2
 8   72  400        1

 1   20   49        5
 5  100  245        1

 1   25  169        9
 3   75  507        3
 9  225 1521        1

 1   27   98        6
 2   54  196        3
 3   81  294        2
 6  162  588        1

 1   49  125        5
 5  245  625        1

 1   50  289        8
 2  100  578        4
 4  200 1156        2
 8  400 2312        1

 1   98  363        6
 2  196  726        3
 3  294 1089        2
 6  588 2178        1

 2    3   25        6
 4    6   50        3
 6    9   75        2
12   18  150        1

 2    9  121        8
 4   18  242        4
 8   36  484        2
16   72  968        1

 2   25  243        6
 4   50  486        3
 6   75  729        2
12  150 1458        1

 3    8  121        6
 6   16  242        3
 9   24  363        2
18   48  726        1


  Posted by Dej Mar on 2007-10-15 13:30:31
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