Find all triples of positive integers such that is a perfect square.
Solution
Let . Since is odd we have . For each positive integer we have or . Therefore, and we get that , and are odd numbers. Let . Then . Now since is odd, we get that . Thus, and we get all solutions: , where is a positive integer.
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