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Perfect Pell Powers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

J. H. E. Cohn
J. H. E. Cohn
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Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England
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In the thirty years since it was proved that 0, 1 and 144 were the only perfect squares in the Fibonacci sequence [1, 9], several generalisations have been proved, but many problems remain. Thus it has been shown that 0, 1 and 8 are the only Fibonacci cubes [6] but there seems to be no method available to prove the conjecture that 0, 1, 8 and 144 are the only perfect powers.

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Research Article
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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 19 - 20
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1996

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