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- bobbym
- 2012-10-29 23:30:33
Hi;
This is where it is explained:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_fraction
if you have a problem with understanding it post it here.
- John-o
- 2012-10-29 22:33:21
What is this egyptian fraction?I'd like to know about it.
- bobbym
- 2012-10-29 17:05:22
Hi John-o;
There are a lot of solutions to that equation. Are there any constraints you have left out?
We can treat this with a few more constraints as an Egyptian fraction. One possible solution is
So we have a=1 and ab -1 =14 and b = 15
Substituting into the top equation:
x = 15 , y = 210 is one solution.
There 5 solutions with positive integers and x ≠ y. They are
For a general solution that gets all solutions
All solutions are now generated by adding 14 to the divisors of 196.
- John-o
- 2012-10-29 16:45:41
What will be integer solution for x and y-