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		gfodor on Sept 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 7373170279850 Meh, this is cool and all but is just a coincidence of base-10 notation, not some fundamental theorem about the integers.

msds on Sept 24, 2013 [–]

In fact, searching for x such that 1+4x10^(Ceiling[Log10[x]])-4x^2 is a perfect square gives you tons of integers that make up half of a pair that has this property. 123288,328768 is my favorite pair, for arbitrary reasons.

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