Can you name the square of a natural number that is twice
the square of some other natural number?
Answer: There is
no such natural number.
If a is a natural number, then 2A² cannot be a square since
A² can be represented as the product of pairs of prime factors. There is no
‘extra’ factor of two to ‘pair up with ‘the factor of two in 2A².
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