Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-grxwn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-11T19:27:14.104Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A curious factorisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

T. O. Adewoye
T. O. Adewoye*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Given any positive real number r there will exist some positive real numbers r1, r2,…,rn all less than 4 with

That surprising ‘simultaneous factorisation’ is established in this article. It is based on some fuller work which I did a couple of years ago, but the interest in it was revived when Nick Mackinnon’s and Nick Lord’s work on ‘Sums equal to products’ was published in the March 1986 Gazette.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 71 , Issue 458 , December 1987 , pp. 258 - 261
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1987

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)