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evene

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Registered: 2015-10-18

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Proving the following factorizations

How would you prove this:

I'm confused on how you would prove them...

bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Proving the following factorizations

Hi;

For the first one, I have seen a couple of demonstrations of these before:

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions … lify-an-bn

See Mawhrin-Skel's post. If his algebra ( I have not checked, you now have the means to check anyone's work... ) is correct then it is short and sweet. Another, explanation is given here...

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions … ctor-an-bn

Sweet use of a generating function.

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Re: Proving the following factorizations

hi evene

For number one the right hand side looks more complicated so I tried to make RHS into the LHS.

That gave me the clue to do it the other way round, ie. LHS => RHS.

Proof:

Collect all the + terms together and factorise out an 'a'.  Then all the - terms and factorise out a 'b'.

I think you can do the others similarly.

Bob

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thickhead

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Re: Proving the following factorizations

First ensure remainder is zero and then use long division.

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