Common sense tells us that either two things happen at the same time or they do not.
In a previous issue of Parabola (Vol 28 No 1, p26) David Tacon has written about prime numbers, that is integers greater than one which have only 1 and themselves as divisors.
Junior Division
- Given real numbers $a,b$ with $0 < a \leq b$, a sequence of numbers is defined by $$ x_1 = a, x_2 = b, x_{n+2} = \left|x_{n+1}\right| - x_n \text{ for } n \geq 1 $$
Q.893 Find all positive integer solutions of $$ x^2 - 84 = 6y + 3x - 2xy $$
Q.882 A triangle is divided by one straight line into two parts which are similar to each other. Prove that the triangle is isosceles or right-angled (or both).