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Problem of the Week 1010

An Exponential Diophantine Problem

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Show that there are infinitely many pairs of positive integers x, y so that x(x - y) = y(x + y).

Source: Dan Velleman (The 2002 Walker Contest at Amherst College)

© Copyright 2004 Stan Wagon. Reproduced with permission.

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21 April 2004