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- From: vbm@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Karen Hunt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: An interesting limit problem.
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 19:13:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.115656.23253@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <MARTIN.92Jul29125203@lyra.cis.umassd.edu> <1992Jul30.150656.14324@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul30.150656.14324@husc3.harvard.edu> elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:
- > 5 2
- >Ouch. Do they automatically write 2 9 = 2592 too? ;-)
- >
- >--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
- > Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
- 5 2
- Well.... A friend and I had discovered 2 9 = 2592, and I even wrote a
- program to check the first 100,000,000 numbers (base 10) to see if any
- other numbers of the form b d f h
- a c e g = abcdefgh, and didn't find any.
- Does anyone know if is has been shown that no such number other than 2592
- exists? (Yes I know, this is hardly important mathematics :-) ).
-
- Just curious,
-
- Karen Hunt
- vbm@mace.cc.purdue.edu
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