A curious age

Number Theory Level 3

A person says: "I will be x x years old in the year x 2 x^{2} ", where x x is a positive integer. Assuming that people can live infinitely long, are there infinitely many values for x x for which this could be true?

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Freddie Hand by Freddie Hand , 18, United Kingdom

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1 solution

Denton Young
Mar 23, 2017

Yes, there are infinitely many years of the form x 2 − x x^2 - x where the person could be born in.

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