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An Atypical Evaluation (Posted on 2006-08-13) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Determine all possible positive integers x and y such that 3x-2y=17.

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10   X=3:P=27
20   while X<1000000
30     Y=log(P-17)/log(2)
35     Yr=int(Y+0.5)
40     if abs(Y-Yr)<0.00000001 then print x,y
80     X=X+1:P=P*3
90   wend

finds only x=4, y=6, before overflowing the capacity of the log function at x = 5432.


  Posted by Charlie on 2006-08-13 12:00:31
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