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Numbers not power of 5

Source: Indian TST D1 P2

July 17, 2019
number theory

Problem Statement

Show that there do not exist natural numbers a1,a2,,a2018a_1, a_2, \dots, a_{2018} such that the numbers (a1)2018+a2,(a2)2018+a3,,(a2018)2018+a1 (a_1)^{2018}+a_2, (a_2)^{2018}+a_3, \dots, (a_{2018})^{2018}+a_1 are all powers of 55 Proposed by Tejaswi Navilarekallu