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/** Program to verify the (incorrect) Fermat's Library tweet:
https://x.com/fermatslibrary/status/1813217704905474167
which says:
"This is the only solution to a² + b³ = c⁷ in positive integers
15312283^2 + 9262^3 == 113^7"
Augh.
It uses the new faster sqrtNearestInteger function from the 2024-07-16
release of Frink.
*/
for seven = 1 to 1001
{
n = seven^7
for three = 1 to floor[n^(1/3)]
{
n1 = n - three^3
two = sqrtNearestInteger[n1]
if n1 > 0 and two^2 == n1
println["$two^2 + $three^3 == $seven^7"]
}
}
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