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ON A PROBLEM OF RICHARD GUY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 September 2021
Abstract
In the 1993 Western Number Theory Conference, Richard Guy proposed Problem 93:31, which asks for integers n representable by ${(x+y+z)^3}/{xyz}$ , where $x,\,y,\,z$ are integers, preferably with positive integer solutions. We show that the representation $n={(x+y+z)^3}/{xyz}$ is impossible in positive integers $x,\,y,\,z$ if $n=4^{k}(a^2+b^2)$ , where $k,\,a,\,b\in \mathbb {Z}^{+}$ are such that $k\geq 3$ and $2\nmid a+b$ .
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- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 12 - 18
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- © 2021 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
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The author is supported by the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) (grant number 10.04-2019.314).
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