Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/123 - Two Cubes
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $123$
- Two Cubes
- Can you find two cube numbers in integers whose difference shall be a square number?
- Thus the cube of $3$ is $27$, and the cube of $2$ is $8$,
- but the difference, $19$, is not here a square number.
- What is the smallest possible case?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $123$. -- Two Cubes
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Miscellaneous Puzzles: $196$. Two Cubes