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Part of 2003 Federal Competition For Advanced Students, Part 1

Problems(1)

All primes p,q,r such that p^q + p^r is a perfect square

Source: Austrian Mathematical Olympiad 2003, Part 1, P1

Find all triples of prime numbers

(p, q, r)

p^q + p^r

is a perfect square.

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