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On D. J. Lewis's Equation x3+117y3 = 5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R. Finkelstein  and
H. London
R. Finkelstein
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
H. London
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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In a recent publication [2], D. J. Lewis stated that the Diophantine equation x3+117y3 = 5 has at most 18 integer solutions, but the exact number is unknown. In this paper we shall solve this problem by proving the following

Theorem. The equationx3+117y3 = 5 has no integer solutions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 111
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

References

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