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??