2. Find the prime numbers and r such that .
Solution
Solution. It is obvious that one of the numbers and r is 3. Without loss of generality, let . Then , from which it follows that i.e. . Then we get three systems of equations with two unknowns and whose solutions are and respectively. The required numbers are and .
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