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cannonball problem

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Etymology

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It can be visualized as the problem of taking a square arrangement of cannonballs on the ground and building a square pyramid out of them.

Proper noun

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cannonball problem

  1. (mathematics) The challenge of proving that the only solution of the Diophantine equation : with N > 1 is when N = 24 and M = 70.