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Part of 2000 Junior Balkan MO

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n^2+3^n is a perfect square

Source: JBMO 2000, Problem 2

10/30/2005
Find all positive integers n≥1n\geq 1 such that n2+3nn^2+3^n is the square of an integer. Bulgaria
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