Math Equations

Sunday, May 18, 2014

A fun fact about divisibility

If and only if \(\textrm{gcd}(a, b) = 1\) there exists a positive \(x\) such that \(b | a^x - 1\). This means that all rational numbers can be expressed as \(\frac{z}{(a^x - 1)a^y}\) using any \(a \geq 2\).

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