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Squares and Cubes (Posted on 2003-12-06)

What are the two smallest positive whole numbers the difference of whose squares is a cube and the difference of whose cubes is a square ?

See The Solution Submitted by Ravi Raja

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re: Analytic General Solution

| Comment 18 of 21 |

(In reply to Analytic General Solution by Stephen Morris)

A couple of characters came out wrong.

,,k should be the 'equivalent to' symbol

iV should be the minus sign.

Posted by Stephen Morris on 2003-12-14 21:42:23

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