Product of Difference of 3 and Difference of 2?

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What is the sum of every integer which can be written as the product of 2 2 numbers with a difference of 2 2 and also the product of 2 2 numbers with a difference of 3 3


The answer is 0.

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Let n n be the number that can be written as a 2 1 a^2-1 (product of a 1 a-1 and a + 1 a+1 with a difference of 2 2 ) and b 2 3 b b^2-3b (product of two numbers b b and b 3 b-3 with a difference of 3 3 ). Then b 2 3 b + 1 a 2 = 0 b^2-3b+1-a^2=0 , or b = 3 + ( 2 a ) 2 + 5 2 b=\dfrac{3+\sqrt {(2a)^2+5}}{2} . Now the only two perfect squares with a difference of 5 5 are 4 4 and 9 9 . So a = 0 a=0 and hence n = 0 n=0 . Since this is the only number, the required sum is also 0 \boxed 0

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