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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Wednesday, November 30th

Problem 
Find all naturals a, b such that \frac{a+1}{b} and \frac{b+1}{a} are naturals.

Solution
The only possibilities are a=b and b=a+1 (or a=b+1). Thus the only solutions are (1,1), (1,2) and (2,3).

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