Challenge 271: A Difference of Powers
What is the minimum difference between powers of these squares?
What is the minimum difference between a power of 25 and a power of 36?
[In other words, what is the smallest possible value of |36m – 25n|, where m, n are positive integers?]
Explain how you know the difference cannot be any smaller than your answer.
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