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In recent years, a number of articles have appeared in the literature which deal with the problem of finding a set of four numbers such that the product of any two different numbers in the set when incremented by some fixed integer value n is a perfect square.
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Arkin, J., Arney, D.C., Giordano, F.R., Kolb, R.A., Bergum, G.E. (1993). An Extension of an Old Classical Diophantine Problem. In: Bergum, G.E., Philippou, A.N., Horadam, A.F. (eds) Applications of Fibonacci Numbers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2058-6_4
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