Randy MacDonald schreef: > Hello Arie; > > Offhand, I'd say there were an infinite number of solutions; the > puzzle is to find the smallest positive one.. Yes you're right, but I got very interested in the special properties of the two consecutive divisors. So I drifted away from solving puzzle, in which I succeeded BTW, but with a very long sentence :-[
At this moment my computer is running a laborious test in finding these divisors for n = 4 .. 8293. So I could confirm (or reject) my conjecture for at least these few n's. :-) Question: I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'an infinite number of solutions' On what conditions exactly? For every n (or interval of n's) there exists a certain X? Regards =@@i ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
