/* Curious numbers in Picat. """ Curious Numbers from "Amusements in Mathematics, Dudeney", number 114. The number 48 has this peculiarity, that if you add 1 to it the result is a square number, and if you add 1 to its half, you also get a square number. Now, there is no limit to the numbers that have this peculiarity, and it is an interesting puzzle to find three more of them---the smallest possible numbers. What are they? """ The least such numbers are: [ [48,49,7,24,25,5], [1680,1681,41,840,841,29], [57120,57121,239,28560,28561,169], [1940448,1940449,1393,970224,970225,985] ] Model created by Hakan Kjellerstrand, hakank@gmail.com See also my Picat page: http://www.hakank.org/picat/ */ import cp. main => go. go => Z = findall(X,$curious(X)), foreach(Num in Z) writeln(Num) end. curious(LD) => LD = [X,A,B,C,D,E], LD :: 1..2000000, X + 1 #= A, % if you add 1 to it A #= B * B, % the result is a square number X #= 2 * C, % if you to its half C + 1 #= D, % add 1 D #= E * E, % you also get a square number solve([constr,split], LD).