...arts.poems, alt.philosophy, alt.politics, alt.anarchism I guess it made sense for her original post, since it was not just math but rather some math, some philosophy, a poem -- in fact, a ramble. But the later math-related replies were also cross-posted to the same groups, rather than just to sci.math. This reply is also being cross-posted, but mainly to apologize for the inadvertent ...

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On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:30:43 -0700, "Amadeus Jinn" <a-jinn@here.nu> wrote: "quasi" <quasi@null.set> wrote in message news:89heg391r8mdqb6l3kna8u09dubro6mkh0@4ax.com... To all the non-math newsgroups -- sorry for all the math you were hit with. Poetry is pretty dead at this point. Usenet is a seething bung. Smilagevaries... :) I love it. :) Half the...

"quasi" <quasi@null.set> wrote in message news:89heg391r8mdqb6l3kna8u09dubro6mkh0@4ax.com... To all the non-math newsgroups -- sorry for all the math you were hit with. Poetry is pretty dead at this point. Usenet is a seething bung. Smilagevaries... :) I love it. :) Half the morons outright condone copyright thievery and there is at least one lawsuit pending over (...

quasi wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:04:44 -0400, quasi <quasi@null.set> wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:59:05 -0400, quasi <quasi@null.set> wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:26:55 -0700, adler.math@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 5, 6:17 am, quasi <qu...@null.set> wrote: But how about version (2) of tommy1729's problem? Can you get a range of ...

On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:34:34 -0400, quasi <quasi@null.set> wrote: It _would_ suffice to find an integer polynomial whose (full) range is all squarefree positive integers greater than 1. But I don't see how to do that. My conjecture is that it can't be done. Well, can it? Or should we add that to the list of unresolved problems? You've generated all positive integer non-...

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:43:40 -0700, adler.math@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I had not read the post that requested a hint, only the one before that reiterated the conjecture that it could not be done. No problem -- even with many hints, it would have taken me days to get it. You and tommy1729 should consider submitting the question to the Monthly, or to some other place that has a ...

On Oct 5, 10:42 pm, adler.m...@gmail.com wrote: quasi: My conjecture is that it can't be done. OK. Here is the LaTeX source. If you are not familiar with LaTeX, just remove the $ signs and everything should be fairly readable. \begin{lemma} (a) Let $N$ be a positive non-square. Then the equation $x^2-Ny^2=1$ has infinitely many integer solutions, in particular, ...

On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:19:33 -0400, quasi <quasi@null.set> wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:42:35 -0700, adler.math@gmail.com wrote [edited to remove latex]: quasi wrote: My conjecture is that it can't be done. So much for my conjecture. Well, tommy1729 believed in the existence of "deny x^2", so it appears tommy was right after all. lemma: (a) Let N ...