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Article #11535Re: dividers
From: Robert Bartnik
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 00:00
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mnihtila@algonet.se (Mika Nihtil๏ฟฝ) wrote: >How to show that: > > (x^2) - 1 is a divider for (2^(2n)) - ((x+1)^(2n)) - ((x-1)^(2n)) > >Regards, Mika > The RHS vanishes if you substitute x=1 and x=-1. Thus (x-1) and (x+1) are both factors, hence (x^2-1) is a factor. Robert
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10d67e,a9229ccf5d5f1998,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d67e,public From: Robert Bartnik <robb@neumann.une.edu.au> Subject: Re: dividers Date: 1995/11/05 Message-ID: <47h43a$fcp@grivel.une.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 118634471 references: <4738gq$8g6@prometheus.algonet.se> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science x-url: news:4738gq$8g6@prometheus.algonet.se mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: aus.mathematics x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; OSF1 V2.0 alpha)