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Latest revision as of 23:18, 17 March 2025
Problem
Find all triples of positive integers 
that satisfy the equation
Solution 1
We claim that the only solutions are 
and its permutations.
Factoring the above squares and canceling the terms gives you:
Jumping on the coefficients in front of the 
, 
, 
terms, we factor into:
Realizing that the only factors of 2023 that could be expressed as 
are 
, 
, and 
, we simply find that the only solutions are by inspection.
-Max
Alternatively, a more obvious factorization is:
Proceed as above. ~eevee9406
note: idk gang i think the first factorization is more readily apparent but the second factorization is very orz indeed ~Aarush12
See Also
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