Find infinitely many positive integers such that for each such , the number is an integer.
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Solution
By Dirichlet's theorem, there are infinitely many primes of the form . We claim that we can set whenever .
Firstly, divides by the Fermat little theorem. Secondly, we have
which is divisible by . As and are relatively prime, the number is an integer.
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