Excuse me (I used spanish): not in the integers, but apparently there is one
in the reals:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+a+%2B+b+%2B+c+%3D+43+and+a^3+%2B+b^3+%2B+c^3+%3D+17299^2<http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+a+%2B+b+%2B+c+%3D+43+and+a%5E3+%2B+b%5E3+%2B+c%5E3+%3D+17299%5E2>

2011/7/16 Alfonso J. Ramos <[email protected]>

> No en los enteros, pero al parecer si en los reales:
>
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+a+%2B+b+%2B+c+%3D+43+and+a^3+%2B+b^3+%2B+c^3+%3D+17299^2<http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+a+%2B+b+%2B+c+%3D+43+and+a%5E3+%2B+b%5E3+%2B+c%5E3+%3D+17299%5E2>
>
>
> 2011/7/16 Luke Pebody <[email protected]>
>
>> No answers exist for a + b + c = 43 and a^3 + b^3 + c^3 = 17299^2,
>> even allowing them all to be negative:
>> http://ideone.com/FTm8l
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Leopoldo Taravilse
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > You can solve it with no programming.
>> > a+b+c = 43 && a^3 + b^3 + c^3 = 17299
>> > As 17299 == 3 mod 4 then as a^3,b^3 and c^3 can be 0 or 1 mod 4 then a,
>> b
>> > and c are odd.
>> > 27^3 > 17299 so a < b < c <= 25
>> > 1^3 == 1 mod 5
>> > 2^3 == 3 mod 5
>> > 3^3 == 2 mod 5
>> > 4^3 == 4 mod 5
>> > 5^3 == 5 mod 5 (or 0^3 == 0 mod 5)
>> > So as 17299 == 43 + 1 mod 5 at least one of a, b and c must be 2 mod 5
>> so
>> > there are two options, 7 or 17.
>> > Case 1 (7): a+b = 36 && a^3 + b^3 = 16956
>> > Case 2 (17) a+b = 26 && a^3 + b^3 = 12386
>> > Let's see Case 1 first: a and b can be 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,
>> 21,
>> > 23 or 25, but if a = 1, 3, 5 or 9 then b > 25 so a and b can be 11, 13,
>> 15,
>> > 17, 19, 21, 23 or 25. We can easily discard 13 and 23 because of modulo
>> 5
>> > reasons so we have 11, 15, 17, 19, 21 or 25 so we can try with this six
>> > numbers.
>> > Case 2: a and b can be 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 or 23, but we
>> can
>> > discard 3, 13 and 23 again so we have 1, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19 and 21 to
>> try.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:54 AM, micke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What are the three positive integers whose sum is 43. and the sum of
>> >> the cubes of three integers is square of the number 17299.
>> >>
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