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#76 Re: Euler Avenue » Division mod n » 2008-07-23 10:32:03

Since distributivity is the only ring axiom to mention both addition and multiplication, a ring without distributivity is nothing more than an abelian group and a semigroup that happen to be defined on the same set.

#77 Re: Puzzles and Games » The value » 2008-07-07 09:50:16

(sin(a) + sin(b) + sin(c))^2 + (cos(a) + cos(b) + cos(c))^2

= sin^2(a) + sin^2(b) + sin^2(c) + cos^2(a) + cos^2(b) + cos^2(c)
   + 2sin(a)sin(b) + 2sin(a)sin(c) + 2sin(b)sin(c)
   + 2cos(a)cos(b) + 2cos(a)cos(c) + 2cos(b)cos(c)

= 3 + 2(cos(a-b) + cos(b-c) + cos(c-a))
= 0

Assuming a,b,c are real we must have
sin(a) + sin(b) + sin(c) = cos(a) + cos(b) + cos(c) = 0
and so the answer is (iv).

#78 Re: Help Me ! » Solve this And You are a Genius » 2008-04-16 11:34:28

Any sequence of the form


satisfies the recurrence relation


In Professor Umbuguio's forumula we have


It is easy to check that
are all divisible by 1946.

Since

are all integers, we can use the recurrence relation to prove by induction that
is divisible by 1946 for all

#79 Re: Help Me ! » sequences and series » 2007-10-16 10:54:11

Surely we should have:

Don't you just love it when two mistakes cancel each other out.

#80 Re: Help Me ! » Help! Cuboid shapes made from cubes » 2007-06-28 12:25:01

I have found this to be a nice problem, with what I consider to be a pretty solution.
Let g(n) be the number of cuboids that can be made from n cubes.

Write n as a product of powers of distinct primes, say

Then we have


where

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