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#1 2012-03-23 10:33:41
- anonimnystefy
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Crazy Fractions!!!
Hi guys
As some of you suggested i am posting this problem here.
So,here's the problem:
How many numbers
are there such that: ?Last edited by anonimnystefy (2012-03-23 10:46:33)
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#2 2012-03-23 10:36:20
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Hi;
I am going to be the first to conjecture an infinite amount. Here are 30
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#3 2012-03-23 10:48:02
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Can you prove your conjecture?
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#4 2012-03-23 10:53:00
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That might be very difficult or impossible to do. I do not know yet.
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#5 2012-03-23 11:00:04
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
It may even be false.
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#6 2012-03-23 11:06:42
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
I found that the equation above is equivalent to:
There seem to be no solutions with the given restrictions .
Last edited by anonimnystefy (2012-03-23 11:18:26)
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#7 2012-03-23 11:45:51
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
I posted 30 solutions and there are more.
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#8 2012-03-23 12:15:39
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
I checked the first of them and it's not correct.The same probably goes for the other ones as well.
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#9 2012-03-23 12:59:11
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Read the problem again.
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#10 2012-03-23 13:08:01
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You changed the problem! It is different in the other thread!
This one is trivial. Of course there is no solutions.
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#11 2012-03-23 13:25:38
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Hi bobbym
I posted incorrectly over there.
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#12 2012-03-23 13:36:23
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Okay, no problem. Do you see why there are no solutions?
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#13 2012-03-23 14:45:26
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Yes.
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#14 2012-03-25 06:57:07
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
hi bobbym
i know this is not the appropriate thread,but could you tell me some uses of the Markov chains?
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#15 2012-03-25 07:00:29
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
They solve probability problems mostly. I show by example and leave the theorems to guys who hate numbers.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#16 2012-03-25 07:06:41
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
then show me an example.it will be more helpful.
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#17 2012-03-25 07:07:50
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Uhhh, do you know what show by example means?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#18 2012-03-25 07:10:46
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
i thought you meant an example by solving a theoretical problem.
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#19 2012-03-25 07:11:40
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Nope, they are solved by computation. Do you have access to some computational engine?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#20 2012-03-25 07:18:30
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
like what?
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#21 2012-03-25 07:19:31
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Maple, mathematica, maxima, axiom, derive, sage...
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#22 2012-03-25 07:26:05
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
nothing on my desktop. 
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#23 2012-03-25 07:27:56
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
Not even geogebra!
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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#24 2012-03-25 07:30:33
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
actually i have 'Geogebra Prim'
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#25 2012-03-25 07:32:06
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Re: Crazy Fractions!!!
GeoGebraPrim.exe? Do you have the one with maxima inside as I suggested to you a zillion years ago.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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