Primy Cubes!

Find the only prime which is equal to the difference of two cubes of prime.


The answer is 19.

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2 solutions

Danish Ahmed
May 4, 2015

p 3 q 3 = ( p q ) ( p 2 + p q + q 2 ) p^3-q^3=(p-q)(p^2+pq+q^2)

The difference of cubes p 3 q 3 p^3-q^3 is prime only if one of the above factor is 1 1 .

p 2 + p q + q 2 > 1 p^2+pq+q^2 > 1 for any primes.Therefore p q p-q has to be 1 1

p q = 1 p-q=1 only for p = 3 p=3 , q = 2 q=2 as they are the only primes that differ by 1 1 .

So the required number is 3 3 2 3 = 19 3^3-2^3 = 19 which indeed is a prime.

Wowz...... almost same time man

Bryan Lee Shi Yang - 6 years, 1 month ago

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His demonstrates why 19 is the only one, though. You only showed that it must be some odd and 2.

Doug Boyd - 6 years, 1 month ago

best explanation ever............

Debmalya Mitra - 6 years ago

Prime numbers are 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 2,3,5,7 and so on...... But if you take any 2 odd primes, the difference is an even number, which is a multiple of 2 and has more than 2 factors. So you can only do 3 3 2 3 3^{3}-2^{3} , which is 19 \boxed{19} .

Almost the most creative solution I've seen ...

Arian Tashakkor - 6 years, 1 month ago

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