Prove that there is a positive integer that can be written as the sum of squares of positive integers in two different ways. For some reason this is not clicking in my head and I can not figure it out. Any help will be greatly appreciated and I would appreciate no straight forward answer since I am trying to understand.
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Jump to PostI think one way would be to just provide an example, wouldn't it? For example,
2^2 + 3^2 = 4 + 9 = 13
13 is a positive integer, so you have proved that there is a positive integer that can be expressed as the sum of the squares of …
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