Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site istbt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!istbt!rb From: rb@istbt.UUCP (Bob Bishop) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Todays useless fact Message-ID: <23@istbt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 19:02:13 EDT Article-I.D.: istbt.23 Posted: Wed Aug 7 19:02:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 21:46:03 EDT Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, England Lines: 13 Xpath: icdoc ivax < three Shredded Wheat > OK, you guys with a good grasp of number theory.... Can anyone prove (other than by exhaustive search) that: 2592 = 2**5 * 9**2 is the only four-digit number with this property? -- Bob Bishop "What's so unpleasant about being drunk? You ask a glass of water!"