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Explicit Solutions of Pyramidal Diophantine Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leon Bernstein*
Affiliation:
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
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Let Pm, k denote the set of pyramidal numbers

1.1

The question has been asked whether there exist elements p, q, r in Pm, k such that p+q = r or, as the problem is usually posed,

1.2

The case k=2 has been studied by Sierpinski [6] and Khatri [3]; the case k=3 by Oppenheim [4] and Segal [5]; recently Fraenkel [2] has generalized (1.1) to the larger set

1.3

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

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