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Making integer an expression (Posted on 2009-03-20) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Find all positive integers n which make the expression below an integer:

(25/2 + (625/4 - n)½ )½ + (25/2 - (625/4 - n)½ )½

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Some Thoughts Imagination | Comment 4 of 13 |
hmm.  Jer raises an interesting point.  My solution (144, 784, 2304, etc.) does require imaginary square roots, but everything imaginary cancels out and the result is a real integer, so I'm going to take the position that n can be bigger than 625/4 and that there are an infinite number of answers. 

I suppose it depends on what the definition of "Just Math" is, but I contend that imaginaries are "just numbers".

I hope pcbouhid weighs in when he posts the solution.

Anybody else have an opinion?





  Posted by Steve Herman on 2009-03-20 15:04:29
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