Re: 64 - is this the only number that is both a sq and a cube?
From: Stan Brown (the_stan_brown_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 09/21/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:08:58 -0400
"ray" <ray_sitf@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in sci.math:
>But isn't it a bit surprising that the least number that is a square,
>a cube and a fifth power is 1,073,741,824?
It would be, if it were true. :-)
There are two smaller numbers with that property: 0 and 1.
But if you mean the least non-trivial one, well 30 is the least
common multiple of 2, 3, and 5, and 2^30 = what you said.
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