Solution

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Choose distinct primes . The moduli are pairwise coprime, so the Chinese remainder theorem supplies an integer satisfying
Consequently
so but . By the definition of a squarefull number, is therefore not squarefull. Adding a sufficiently large multiple of makes positive without changing any congruence. The integers are the required consecutive integers.

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