There are mamy many possibilities. I'll get just the smallest and the largest possibile solutions. The smallest prime is 2 It's cube is 2³ or 8 The smallest number we can add to 8 to get a 4-digit number is 1000-8=992. But 992 is not a square, so we want to add the smallest square bigger than 992. To do that we get its square root which is about 31.496. Then the next whole number bigger than that, which is 32, is such that if we square it and add it to 8, it will be the cube of a prime number plus a square. So we add 2³ + 32³ = 8 + 1024 = 1032 That's the smallest possible solution, 1032. Let's start with the largest prime whose cube is a 4 digit number. That's the prime number 19, because 19³ = 6859, a four-digit number whereas the next prime 23³ = 12167, which is a five-digit number. It's cube is 19³ or 6859 The largest number we can add to 6859 to get a 4-digit number is 9999-6859=3140. But 3140 is not a square, so we want to add the largest square smaller than 3140. To do that we get its square root which is about 56.036. Then the largest whole number smaller than that, which is 56, is such that if we square it and add it to 6859, it will be the cube of a prime number plus a square. So we add 19³ + 32³ = 8 + 1024 = 1032 19³ + 56² = 9995 That's the largest possible solution. Edwin