Prove or disprove the following statement:
Each positive rational number can be written in the form:
(a^2+b^3)/(c^5+d^7)
where a,b,c,d are positive integers.
(In reply to
re(2): Question? by Salil)
The way I looked at it there are four degrees of freedom in the given expression, which could very well be enough, given that the fractions need not be in simplest (reduced) form.
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Posted by Charlie
on 2013-04-05 09:28:17 |