How to prove there are no more positive integers that are products of 2 and 3 consecutive numbers?

Solution 1:

In his book Diophantine equation,(page $257-258$) L.J.Mordell proved that the equation $$y(y+1)=x(x+1)(x+2)$$ has only the integer solutions $x=-1,-2,0,1,5.$ enter image description here

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