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Can all perfect cubes be written as the difference of two perfect squares?

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Razzi Masroor
Mar 3, 2017

You might know that (1+2+3...n)^2=1^3+2^3+3^3...n^3.So (1+2+3...n)^2-(1+2+3...n-1)^2=n^3

Tom Engelsman
Mar 3, 2017

Let us take x 2 y 2 = k 3 , x^2 - y^2 = k^3, which is expressible as ( x + y ) ( x y ) = k 3 . (x + y)(x - y) = k^3. Now let us take the following system of equations:

x + y = k 2 ; x y = k x = k 2 + k 2 = k ( k + 1 ) 2 ; y = k 2 k 2 = k ( k 1 ) 2 . x + y = k^2; x - y = k \Rightarrow x = \frac{k^2 + k}{2} = \frac{k(k+1)}{2}; y = \frac{k^2 - k}{2} = \frac{k(k-1)}{2}.

Hence, x , y Z x, y \in \mathbb{Z} for all k Z k \in \mathbb{Z} and conclusively shows all perfect cubes can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares.

QED

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