Catalan’s Conjecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-__MukH9I
Activity, Problem, Interesting, Publisher, Numberphile, Holly Krieger, Video, YouTube
An investigation of Catalan's Conjecture.
23 and 32 are two powers of natural numbers whose values (8 and 9, respectively) are consecutive (32 − 23 = 1). The theorem states that this is the only case of two consecutive powers. [Wikipedia]
4 March 2018 Edit: 8 September 2018
- Topics:
- Number, Index Notation, Patterns and Algebra, Index Notation
- Content Type:
- Activity, Problem, Interesting, Publisher, Numberphile, Holly Krieger, Video, YouTube
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Number and Algebra, MA5.3-6NA Surds and Indices
- NSW Curriculum New
- Number and algebra, Indices, MA5-IND-P-02 Indices C (Path)
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