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Conference rusure::math

Title:Mathematics at DEC
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2083
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350.0. "Ordered pairs" by TOOLS::STAN () Thu Oct 17 1985 14:27

(Claudia Spiro)

Let S be the set of ordered pairs of integers defined recursively by

	(i)	(2,1) is in S

	(ii)	If (a,b) is in S then (b,a+b) is in S

	(iii)	If (a,b) and (c,d) are in S, then (ac,bd) is in S.

Is every positive integer a first entry of some member of S?

Selfridge conjectures that every positive integer except 2 is a second
entry of some member of S.
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