Root Difference Determine the difference between the number of perfect squares and cubes that exist between one hundred and one billion.
October 31, 2005 Happy Halloween
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	Lisa Schechner. Schreiber HS, Port Washington, NY Rohit Bollineni. Power Middle School, Farmington Hills, MI Aristides Kyriakakis. Thessaloniki. Greece Jerome Cherry. Mundare, Alberta, Canada Omid Kohannim. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Frank McGartland. Saskatoon, SK., Canada. Jerrold Greenbeg. New York, NY Can Oztoprak. Istanbul, Turkey Rafael Zambrano. Barranquilla, Colombia. SA Bar Greengrass. Israel Ben Gieske. Sauk Centre HS, Sauk Centre, MN Radu Casian Ionescu. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bob Mitchell. Normal, IL Raphael Chalhub. Pan American School of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Gustavo Amorim. Pan American School of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Steigen Johnson. Pan American School of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Francois Bonjean. Liege, Belgium Serena Kulmatyski. R.F. Staples, Westlock, AB, Canada Bojan Ilic. Prirodno-Matematicki Fakultet, Nis, Serbia & Montenegro Mark Wintczak, Naperville, IL Allamanis Miltiadis. Anatolia High School, Thessaloniki, Greece Seana McKee. Dartmouth High School, Dartmouth, MA Eugene Roytman, New York, NY Minray Yang, Carwise Middle School, Palm Harbor, FL Peter Kissinger. Arrowhead High School, Hartland, WI Catherine Cunningham. Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood, TX James Letendre. Southington High School, Southington, CT Vincent Dang. Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, FL Phillip Ai.  Hammarskjold Middle School, East Brunswick, NJ Shannon Sattler. Arrowhead High School, Hartland, WI Hamilton Hardison.  University of Georgia.  Athens, GA Peter Moynahan. Rye Junior High, Rye, NH Brian Hetrick, UNH, Manchester NH Alexander McAvoy. Southampton, MA John Wallace. Smiths, AL Sagar Patel. Brookstone School, Columbus, GA Cory Scruggs. Creeckwood Middle School, Kingwood, TX Mary Smith. Kissimmee, FL Graham Anderson. Faith Lutheran College, Plainland Qld, Australia David Lu. NYC Devan Lai. Saratoga High School, Saratoga, CA Max White. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA John Lee. Southridge School. Surrey, BC Canada Ms. Rothermel. Rye, NH Tim Poe. Austin, TX Rachel Bier. Dartmouth High Dartmouth, MA Sitharthan Sekar. Carwise Middle School, Palm Harbor, FL Alejandra Jimenez. Pan American School of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Adam Thibideau. Toronto, ON, Canada Joe Brophy. Boston, MA. Abigail Finger. Dartmouth High School, Dartmouth, MA Stuart Gerger. Arrowhead High School, Hartland, WI Sau Wai. Pan American Schoolof Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil John Ken. Pan American School of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil William Henry. Whaite Station High School, Memphis, TN Iver Meng. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Kira Kelley. Hartland Elementary School, Hartland, VT Rin Sone. South Pasadena Middle School, CA Kevin Temew. Davao Christian High School, Davao, Philippines Aashrita Mangu. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Alan Leung. Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Columbus, MS Genoa Warner. Dartmouth High School, Dartmouth, MA. Nancy Huynh. MVRCS Upper School, Everett, MA. Sooin Yoon. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Nipuni Ratnayake. Creekwood Middle School. Kingwood, TX Matt Welsh.  Arrowhead High School, Hartland, WI Nikki Tan. Southridge, Surrey, BC, Canada George Hatzikiriakos. Southridge School, Surrey, BC, Canada Sunanda Mattancheril. White Station Middle School, Memphis, TN Kevin Temew. Davao Christian High School, Davao, Philippines Harry Siebert. Infineon, Munich, Germany Herman Timoteo. San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy of Polomolok, Philippines Daniel Pyon. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Carl Sedgeman. Sauk Centre HS, Sauk Centre, MN Sean William. Murray Caboolture, Australia Aaron Foreman. Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood, TX Josh Gow. Sauk Centre HS, Sauk Centre, MN Ross Pacheco. Hastings Middle School, Fairhaven, MA Amanda Tu. Southridge School, Surrey, BC, Canada Ashvin Swaminathan. Harker Elementary School, CA Michelle Lam. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Herman Timoteo. San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy of Polomolok, Philippines Cindy Sung. Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX Karina Shaw. Laguna Beach High School, Newport Beach, CA Verner Kiernan. Orlando, FL Sky Su. Brooklawn Middle School, Parsippany, NJ Patrick Gilroy. Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood Brianna Loo. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Sahit Bollineni. Highmeadow Common Campus, Farmington Hills, MI Roland Vyncke, Brugge, Belgium Dennis Muniz. Commack, NY Daniel Sutherland. Dornoch Academy, Scotland Tiffany Chen. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Katie Quinones. Trinity High School, River Forest, IL Katie Grunow. Trinity High School, River Forest, IL Anil Nataraj. Brookstone School, Columbus, GA Cray Math Project.  New Castle, PA Amanda Frankwick Arrowhead High School Hartland, WI Corinne Fortin. Hastings middle school, Fairhaven, MA Will Lewis. Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood, TX Svadharma Keerthi. South Pasadena Middle School, South Pasadena, CA Caroline Brander. Trinity High School, River Forest, IL Blakeley Coull.  St. Luke School, Smiths, AL Aaron Rose. Hastings Middle School, Fairhaven, MA Jared Gillespie Creekwood Middle School Kingwood, TX Taylor Dowlen, Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood, TX Hussein Nouri. Saint Leo University, St. Leo, FL Chiraag Gupta. Southridge School. Surrey, B.C. Canada Allan Toda. Southridge School, Surrey B.C. Canada Sarah Maldonado. Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood, Texas Ryan Elmer. Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood, TX Nathan Caldwell. DeLaura Middle School, Satellite Beach, FL Roger Ouyang. Adobe Bluffs Elementary School, San Diego, CA Matthew Wong. South Pasadena, South Pasadena Middle School, CA Lusha Zhou. RHS, Rmd, BC, CA Panu Korpela. Naenae Intermediate, Lower Hutt, New Zealand DeeDee Walker. St. Cloud, FL Jun Chen. South Pasadena, South Pasadena Middle School, CA Jonathan Liu. Churchill Junior High School, East Brunswick, NJ Dave P.  ISU, Uganda
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