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Challenge 27: A Pretty Pattern

Can you work out if this pattern holds for all consecutive integers?

Here we go… 

1 x 2 x 3 x 4 = 24 = 52 – 1

2 x 3 x 4 x 5 = 120 = 112 – 1

3 x 4 x 5 x 6 = 360 = 192 – 1

Golly! Is every product of four consecutive integers one less than a perfect square??