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Friday, June 15, 2007

pretty good

Prove that among any 10 consecutive integers at least one is relatively prime to each of the others.





hint: picture has nothing to do with the problem
Posted by talegari (ತಾಳೆಗರಿ) at Friday, June 15, 2007
Labels: number theory

1 comment:

Unknown said...

ha ha. that hint was good!

Monday, June 18, 2007 8:14:00 pm

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