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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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