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Never consecutive?

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Are there any consecutive Achilles numbers? --88.78.2.158 (talk) 16:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently so: see http://www.primepuzzles.net/problems/prob_053.htm which has several examples including 5425069447 and 5425069448 --Rumping (talk) 00:16, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

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Are there any references to this concept in reliable sources? Sergeant Cribb (talk) 20:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would have thought OEIS and MathWorld were reliable sources --Rumping (talk) 00:16, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Achilles numbers?

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27, 243, 343, 1331, 2187, 3375, 6859, 12167, 16807, 19683, 29791, 42875, 59319, 79507, 103823, 132651, 161051, 166375, 177147, ...

These are the numbers of the form (4k + 3)odd number.

updated list of Achilles numbers up to 5000: 27, 72, 108, 200, 243, 288, 343, 392, 432, 500, 648, 675, 800, 864, 968, 972, 1125, 1152, 1323, 1331, 1352, 1372, 1568, 1800, 1944, 2000, 2187, 2312, 2592, 2700, 2888, 3087, 3200, 3267, 3375, 3456, 3528, 3872, 3888, 4000, 4232, 4500, 4563, 4608, 5000

smallest pair of consecutive Achilles numbers: 12167 = (4*5 + 3)3 and 12168 = 23*32*132 2A00:6020:A123:8B00:74EC:9F2D:8C4D:2896 (talk) 20:41, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(4k + 3)odd number for an exponent above 1 is clearly a perfect power and therefore not an Achilles number. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:54, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]