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 +<box 85% round orange|Problem 1 (due on Monday, September 9) >
  
 +Find all natural numbers $n>1$ such that $2!+3!+\ldots+n!$ is a cube of an integer.
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 +The problem was solved by Sasha Aksenchuk, Prof. Vladislav Kargin, Josiah Moltz, and Mithun Padinhare Veettil.
 +The only solution is $n=3$. All solutions received and our in-house solution are based on the observation
 +that a cube of an integers must yield a remainder 0, 1, or 6 when divided by 7. For a detailed solution see the following link {{:pow:2024fproblem1.pdf|Solution}}.