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How to attack this diophantine equation in 3 variables?
Well, the numbers cannot be more then something like 10^5, so a simple program that cycles through all possible a and b and sees if there's a corresponding c might give you an answer pretty fast -- I …
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The ants-on-a-ball problem
The post consists of initial ideas on top and the proof at the bottom.
I think the key idea is to perform the process opposite to what you describe about subdividing into triangles. Indeed, our pro …