Arranging Consecutive Integers in a Continued Radical to Make a Rational Number

Find the sum of all positive integral n n such that there exists a permutation σ \sigma of the set { 1 , , n } \{ 1,\ldots, n\} such that

σ ( 1 ) + σ ( 2 ) + + σ ( n ) \sqrt{\sigma(1)+\sqrt{\sigma(2)+\sqrt{\cdots+\sqrt{\sigma(n)}}}}

is a rational number. σ ( m ) \sigma(m) denotes the m m -th term of the permutation.


The answer is 4.

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