Perfect Cubes
Description For hundreds of years Fermat's Last Theorem, which stated simply that for n > 2 there exist no integers a, b, c > 1 such that a^n = b^n + c^n, has remained elusively unproven. (A recent proof is believed to be correct, though it is still undergoing scrutiny.) It is possible, however, to find integers greater than 1 that satisfy the "perfect cube" equation a^3 = b^3 + c^3 + d^3 (e.g. a quick calculation will show that the equation 12^3 = 6^3 + 8^3 + 10^3 is indeed true). This problem requires that you write a program to find all sets of numbers {a,b,c,d} which satisfy this equation for a <= N. Input One integer N (N <= 100). Output The output should be listed as shown below, one perfect cube per line, in non-decreasing order of a (i.e. the lines should be sorted by their a values). The values of b, c, and d should also be listed in non-decreasing order on the line itself. There do exist several values of a which can be produced from multiple distinct sets of b, c, and d triples. In these cases, the triples with the smaller b values should be listed first. Sample Input Sample Output Source |
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
void print(int a,int b,int c,int d){
cout<<"Cube = "<<a<<", Triple = ("<<b<<","<<c<<","<<d<<")"<<endl;
}
int main(){
for(int a=6;a<=200;a++){
for(int b=2;b<a;b++){
for(int c=b;c<a;c++){
for(int d=c;d<a;d++){
if(a*a*a==b*b*b+c*c*c+d*d*d)
print(a,b,c,d);
if(a*a*a<b*b*b+c*c*c+d*d*d)
break;
}
}
}
}
return 0;
}