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Thu 19 May, 2005 09:05 pm
Hopeing to Solve this Riddle my self But One part I can't Figure out . Needing abit of heolp if someone Could I'm not all the good at Math
number of prime numbers between one and a million that become a perfect square if you add 1 to them
There's an ongoing thread for Lenny Conundrum riddles in... riddles forum. It's been discussed there in detail...
By the way, the answer is "1" if you really wanted to know just that and do the rest by yourself.
I only know the prime number 3..
(3+1)=2*2.
If p is a prime and n is any integer, then
p+1=n^2
or
n^2-1=p
but
n^2-1=(n-1)(n+1)
and if
p=(n+1)(n-1) then p is not prime
so there is no prime in general that satisfy this condition
Special case is n=2 (the only even prime)
p=(2-1)(2+1)=3 (first odd prime)
if n=3, then p=2*4=8 which is not prime
So the only solution is for p=3
3+1=2^2
Rap