## Floors and roots

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ibnesina
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### Floors and roots

find the smallest integer values of $x$ for which $\lfloor \sqrt {x +15} \rfloor - \lfloor \sqrt x \rfloor ═0$ holds
plz solve that or tell me where i can
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### Re: Floors and roots

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### Re: Floors and roots

you can check one by one. but the another way is that to check only squire number. Now notethat,
$x=4$ implies
$\lfloor \sqrt {x +15} \rfloor - \lfloor \sqrt x \rfloor ═1$
because $16<19<25$ so $4 <\sqrt { 4+15} <5$
now checking one by one squire number you will see that for $x=49$ you can calculate this without floor function
$\sqrt {49 +15} - \sqrt 49 ═1$
then check $x=64$ you will get your answer.

actually according to experience the trick is that, just try to make a squire for both floor function and then the next number could be your answer. just check.
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### Re: Floors and roots

ibnesina wrote:find the smallest integer values of $x$ for which $\lfloor \sqrt {x +15} \rfloor - \lfloor \sqrt x \rfloor ═0$ holds
plz solve that or tell me where i can
for $k\ge0$, $\lfloor\sqrt x\rfloor=\lfloor \sqrt{x+k}\rfloor$ if $k<2x+1$. So if $15<2x+1$ is satisfied by $8$ for smallest such $x$.
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