EPTProve that for any prime number p >= 5, there is an integer n such as
p*p - 24n - 1 = 0
This does not require any math beyond high school level.
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Hanh
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Prove that for any prime number p >= 5, there is an integer n such as p*p - 24n - 1 = 0 This does not require any math beyond high school level. | ||
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meatpudding
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+ Show Spoiler + By eliminating p divisible by 2 or 3 then we can say for some integer a > 0 that p = 6a + 1 or p = 6a + 5. Then show that 24 | (p.p - 1). 1st case: (6a + 1)(6a + 1) - 1 36a.a + 12a + 1 - 1 12a(3a + 1) If a is even then 24 | 12a If a is odd then 3a + 1 is even and 24 | 12(3a + 1) 2nd case: (6a + 5)(6a + 5) - 1 36a.a + 60a + 25 - 1 12a(3a + 5) + 24 Same argument as above. For p = 5 (not covered in these examples) observe that with n = 1 gives p.p - 24 - 1 = 0. | ||
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On March 16 2017 18:43 mantequilla wrote: I hate proofs. Lucky that I didn't have to deal them much. Proving something that looks uncertain is cool but proving something that we know it's true for years is a weird mental process. Imo they should teach it by proving things which really need proving, like things not obvious to be true or false at the first look. I fail to understand the problem. Just like you learn coding by programming easy stuff which has already been done thousands of times and probably already exists as a function/library, you learn to do proofs by proving easy stuff. If you're having a hard time writing down a proof for some easy stuff you're probably not ready to prove hard stuff? | ||
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