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Denis Serre
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What sums of equal powers of consecutive natural numbers are powers of the same order?

Trivially $n^1=n^1$, and everyone knows that $3^2+4^2=5^2$. Denis Serre quoted $3^3+4^3+5^3=6^3$ in a recent MathOverflow question (which prompted this one). Are any other examples known?

John Bentin
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