This question looks impossibly hard at first. But work carefully and the solution is beautiful.

This puzzle is adapted from a British Mathematical Olympiad question, but it makes for a very interesting technical coding interview question too. Part one is to find all solutions in non-negative integers so the sum of two square roots is the square root of 2023. The second is to generalize and write Python code to compute all solutions for the square root of a given natural number n. Thanks to Rohit for reviewing the computer code!

Based on BMO 2008/2009 Round 2 problem 1
https://bmos.ukmt.org.uk/home/bmo2-20...

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