Legebbles

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 4 th 4^{\text{th}} power, ( 1 4 = 1 1^4=1 ), but run out of pebbles before you can find another one.

If the pattern continues, how many other groupings would also use a 4 th 4^{\text{th}} power number of pebbles?


Inspiration: ( 1 ) (1) , ( 2 ) (2)

Fun Question. What if we were to generalize this for any positive integer power?

None (it only works with one pebble) Finitely many others Infinitely many others

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1 solution

Chris Lewis
Apr 9, 2021

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!

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