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What is a three consecutive digit number like 5,6,7 , which is two less than a cube and two more than a square? |
Stanley,
Make a list of cubes up to 103. Which of them are two
more than a number of the sort you describe? Does the square-plus-two property hold as well?
-Good Hunting!
RD
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