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- From: roach@bikini.wri.com (Kelly Roach)
- Subject: Re: u(v^n)w prime puzzle - HINTS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.191553.6101@wri.com>
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- References: <a_rubin.714416973@dn66>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:15:53 GMT
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- In article <a_rubin.714416973@dn66> writes:
- > p
- > Essentially the same proof shows that if p=uvw is prime, then p | uv w.
-
-
- OK. I think I understand what you are getting at.
- For anyone else who didn't get it, I think Arthur Rubin's
- solution is "essentially the same" as my hint sheet with
- the difference that
-
- u*10^(a*n+b) + vw
-
- v*Sum[10^(a*i+b),{i,1,n-1}]
-
- are used in (2) and p=uvw is used in (4). The nice feature
- to using p=uvw is that p doesn't divide 10^a-1 appearing
- in the denominator of the closed form expression for the
- geometric Sum. This is a nice observation.
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