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- From: kedlaya@metropolis.super.org (Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya)
- Subject: Re: n doesn't divide .......
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.195025.3572@super.org>
- Sender: kedlaya@metropolis (Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya)
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center
- References: <1992Aug28.230054.21269@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:50:25 GMT
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- Incidentally, I posted a slightly different solution a few messages back. (I
- forgot to email it. Mea culpa.) But one solution is quite enough.
-
- One comment on Logan's comment: he says that the problem "prove that n^2 | 2^n
- + 1 iff n = 1 or 3" is "similar but harder". Similar, yes; harder is perhaps
- an understatement, considering that the original problem can be solved in a
- few lines, while the latter was Problem 3 on the 1990 International Math
- Olympiad.
-
- Kiran Kedlaya
- kedlaya@super.org
-
- P.S. Bart-say hello to Adam for me.
-