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Werner_E
25-Diamond I
Oct 28, 2025 5:40 PM UTC

impressive solution!

 

I tried a direct attack with the symbolics and it fails ("no solution found") but at least it could verify the solution you found.

So I guess a brute force approach using a loop testing all multiples of 3 evaluated symbolically may come up with the solution - but probably not in a lifetime.

Apropos time - the result is the same in real Mathcad (V.15) but the difference in calculation time compared to Prime is quite remarkable!

Prime 11:

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Mathcad 15:

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But of course, symbolics makes it easier to arrive at the solution using your thoughts:

Werner_E_0-1761673985732.png

 

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