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PostPosted: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:33:31 UTC 
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a=\frac{62k+1}{k-1}

a, k are natural numbers
I must find all a


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Patron wrote:
a=\frac{62k+1}{k-1}

a, k are natural numbers
I must find all a


multiply both sides by k-1 (justify why this is OK), solve linear equation.

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solutions infinite (except a<>62).

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I knows results. a=63, 65, 69, 71 ,83, 125, but my system is very complicated.


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Denis wrote:
solutions infinite (except a<>62).


What? For fixed a and k\ne 1 (for which the right side is not defined, so this is not well-defined) we can see that 62k+1=a(k-1)\iff k(62-a)+1+a=0, which has no solution for a=62 as you note, but otherwise, it's easy to see there is a unique solutions of $k=-{a+1\over 62-a}, which is uniquely determined by a. . .

I mean in general this should be obvious because the given function is a Möbius transform, which is an analytic isomorphism of the Riemann sphere, so if you consider the punctured sphere, you need to only punch out the preimage of infinity, in this case a=62 and you're fine, and you still get a 1-1 function descending from the original by restriction.

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Hello, Patron!

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a\:=\:\dfrac{62k+1}{k-1} \quad a, k\text{ are natural numbers. \; Find all }a.

We have: .a \:=\:62 + \dfrac{63}{k-1}

Since a is a natural number, k-1 must be a factor of 63.

And we have six solutions: .\begin{array}{cc} k & a \\ \hline 64 & 63 \\ 22 & 65 \\ 10 & 69 \\ 8 & 71 \\ 4 & 83 \\ 2 & 125 \end{array}



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Ok ok .... missed the word "natural" ... :cry:

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Denis wrote:
Ok ok .... missed the word "natural" ... :cry:


As did I, but I'm still not sure how you got infinitely many solutions?

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