Stinger #37
 by Dr. Joel C. Fowler
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
 

 

 The puzzle for this issue is to find integers a, b, and c that satisfy a^3+b^4=c^5. Although it is possible to use a computer search (the number of cases to check is large) this can also be solved more quickly if you think about it the right way.

 

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