Re: old number puzzle

From: "Stephen J. Herschkorn" <sjherschko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:45:34 -0500

Robert Israel wrote:

In article <1135195926.158671.283990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Narasimham <mathma18@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Find the 'n' th term in 1,3,8, ... product of any two numbers + 1 is a perfect square.

??? Umm, 1+1 is not a perfect square. Would you care to explain what you mean?


My interpretation was that he meant any two *distinct* numbers.

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