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Must x be an integer if 2^x and 3^x are integers?

Show that a real number x for which both 2^x and 3^x are integers must itself be an integer.

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16 "poser": "L. Alaoglu and P. Erdős (1944); asked on MathOverflow by Alon Amit",
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