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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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347.0. "Ramanujan pairs" by TOOLS::STAN () Thu Oct 17 1985 16:18

(John Brillhart)

Let {a[i]}, i=1..m and {b[j]}, j=1..n be increasing sequences of
positive integers.  It is known that

	  m	      a[i]		 n   b[j]	      j
	 PROD   1/(1-x     )  =  1 +    SUM x    /(1-x)...(1-x )
	 i=1				j=1

exactly if m=n and a[i]=b[i]=i for i=1..n.  In other words, the
only possibility is the Euler identity.

Is this true if you take (the coefficients on) the two sides of
the equation modulo 2?  I.e. are  there other identities mode 2? mod 3?
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