little math problem(s) May 2022

[ijabbott]

(05-29-2022 07:36 PM)ijabbott Wrote:  (The answer to the puzzle seems obvious unless I'm missing something.)

I think I was missing that there is an obvious class of solutions for the general case, but there may be other solutions that are not in the obvious class. (That does not apply when the chain length is 23 though.)