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#1 2009-08-24 14:14:16
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Difference of Two Cubes
A (rather too short) page on the Difference of Two Cubes
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#2 2009-08-24 20:13:48
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Re: Difference of Two Cubes
Hi MathsisFun;
It does some nifty expansions like:
calling a= 5x and b =2
So numbers like 15617 which equal 25^3 - 2^3 can be factored but not always into primes.
15617 = (23)(679)
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