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22 hours ago comment added SmileyCraft @Andre More generally, you can always multiply $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$ by the same value to show that any multiple of a realizable number is also realizable.
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yesterday comment added Dan @Blue In my exhaustive search for $A+B+C+D=2026$, I checked all combinations of $1\le A\le 2026$ and $1\le D\le 2026$ (assuming $C=\frac{(2A+B+D)BD}{A^2-BD}$). There were no integer solutions for $B$.
yesterday comment added Andre I'll leave it as a comment: Let me start with the easiest case where $A=2k$ and $B=D=k$, with $k\in\mathbb Z^+$. We can verify that in this case $$C=\frac{(2A+B+D)BD}{A^2-BD}=\frac{6\times k^3}{3\times k^2}=2k.$$ Hence, $$A+B+C+D=6k$$ and any year divisible by $6$ can be realized (as 2022).
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yesterday comment added Blue @Dan: Thinking out loud ... Choosing positive-integer areas $A$, $B$, $D$, the total area is $$T := A+B+C+D=\frac{A(A+B)(A+D)}{A^2-BD}$$ So, valid solutions in general are those such that $A^2>BD$ and $T$ is an integer. For $T=2026$, we need each of its prime factors ($2$ and $1013$) to divide at least one of $A$, $A+B$, $A+D$, with $A^2-BD$ dividing-out all other factors (and any "extra" $2$s and $1013$s).
yesterday comment added Blue @Dan: How exhaustive is your exhaustive search? That is, what range of $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$ values have you tested?
yesterday comment added Dan @Andre Suppose my target sum is $2025$. I make a column of all $1$s; these are $A$ values. The second column is $1,2,3,\dots$; these are $D$ values. In the third column I calculate $B$ using a rearrangement of $C=\frac{(2A+B+D)BD}{A^2-BD}=2025-A-B-D$. I check for integer values of $B$ using the floor function. I create many copies of these three columns, where each first column is the same number repeated.
yesterday comment added Andre @Dan: can you briefly explain how your Excel finds the numbers?
yesterday comment added Bowei Tang $2026$ is of the form $2p$, where $p=2013$ is a prime. A naive guess is that the possible areas are all positive integers except those of the form $2p$, where $p$ is a prime. (maybe with some additional conditions) :) [Of course, this is probably wrong]
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