6-Aug-1995 (revised 8/11/95)
Unsolved Problem 32:
Can you find three integers x, y, and z, such that
(x+y+z)^3=xyz?
Reference:
- [Ogilvy 1988]
- C. Stanley Ogilvy and John T. Anderson,
Excursions in Number Theory.
Dover. New York: 1988.
Page 81.
Can the Cube of a Sum Equal their Product
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