Regular readers know of my affinity for number theory. Today’s exercise is a reflection of that. It is conjectured that the two numbers produced by the equations n17 + 9 and (n + 1)17 + 9 for a given n are always co-prime (that is, their greatest common divisor is 1). Is that conjecture correct? […]
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