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Curious Consecutive Conundrum (Posted on 2008-04-08) |
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L and P are positive integers that satisfy this equation:
(L+1)3 – L3 = P2
For example, 83 - 73 = 132; 1053 - 1043 = 1812, and so on.
Prove that P is always expressible as the sum of squares of two consecutive positive integers.
(For example, 13 = 22 + 32; 181 = 92 + 102, and so on.)
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