BMO Round 1, 2009

Number theory Difficulty 4.0 AIME Find the answer United Kingdom

Find all positive integers $n$ such that both $n + 2008$ divides $n^2 + 2008$ and $n + 2009$ divides $n^2 + 2009$ .

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