RE: [math-fun] Simple EF

29 Oct 2003


      
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Conway [mailto:conway@Math.Princeton.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 4:55 PM
To: math-fun
Subject: Re: [math-fun] Simple EF
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Jon Perry wrote:
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This may be completely dumb, but is it always possible to 
solve x/y = a/b +
c/d, where all algebraic quantities are positive integers, 
for all x and y?
How about a=x, b=y, c=0, d=1 ?   John Conway
0 isn't a positive integer. But how about a=c=x, b=d=2y?

				Andy Latto
				andy.latto@pobox.com