Problem #3






This month's problem involves expressing a positive integer as the sum of the squares of (at least two) consecutive positive integers. Some integers can be expressed as such a sum in more than one way. For example, 365 = 132 + 142 = 102 + 112 + 122. [Note that if we had not required at least two terms, we could have used 25 = 52 = 32 + 42.



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