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Equal Sums of Like Powers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. M. Wright
E. M. Wright*
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
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In what follows small latin letters denote rational integers (whole numbers) and we write

Let us consider the system of k equations

1

that is

These equations are obviously satisfied if the b are a permutation of the a; such a solution we call trivial.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1965 , pp. 193 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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