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Named after Eugène Prouhet, who studied it in the early 1850s, and Gaston Tarry and Escott, who studied it in the early 1910s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem
Today it means: The problem of finding two disjoint sets A and B of n integers each, such that ∑_(a∈A)aⁱ=∑_(b∈B)bⁱ for each integer i from 1 to a given k. Full definition →