You find some pebbles and arrange them in groups of increasing diamond-shapes as follows:
You notice that number of pebbles in the first grouping is a perfect power, ( ), but run out of pebbles before you can find another one.
If the pattern continues, how many other groupings would also use a power number of pebbles?
Fun Question. What if we were to generalize this for any positive integer power?
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Sorry - not a solution! (Yet)
Michael - for some reason I can't mention you with the usual "at" symbol but hopefully you'll get this! Did you have a solution for this problem? If so could you share it? (Or even a sketch of it if it's too much to write up.) I tried lots of different ideas but couldn't get any to work out properly. Thank you!