Variants of the Brocard-Ramanujan equation

Kihel, Omar; Luca, Florian

doi:10.5802/jtnb.631

Kihel, Omar ¹; Luca, Florian ²

¹ Department of Mathematics Brock University 500 Glenridge Avenue St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 00000
² Mathematical Institute UNAM, Campus Morelia Apartado, Postal 27-3 (Xangari), C.P. 58089 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Volume 20 (2008) no. 2, pp. 353-363.

Abstract
Résumé

In this paper, we discuss variations on the Brocard-Ramanujan Diophantine equation.

Dans cet article, nous étudions quelques variations sur l’équation diophantienne de Brocard-Ramanujan.

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DOI: 10.5802/jtnb.631

Author's affiliations:

Kihel, Omar ¹; Luca, Florian ²

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Kihel, Omar; Luca, Florian. Variants of the Brocard-Ramanujan equation. Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Volume 20 (2008) no. 2, pp. 353-363. doi : 10.5802/jtnb.631. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/jtnb.631/

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