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The Mathematical Proof Thread
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RE: The Mathematical Proof Thread
September 14, 2016 at 11:03 pm
Ok. My daughter looked at the first post in this thread and said that for the most part she understands it.
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September 17, 2016 at 2:44 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 2:47 pm by A Handmaid.)
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RE: The Mathematical Proof Thread
September 17, 2016 at 2:46 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 2:50 pm by A Handmaid.)
(September 17, 2016 at 2:47 am)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote: Proposition: Suppose a and b are natural numbers.  Then a=lcm(a,b) if and only if b divides a

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EDIT: Oh, your proof was the same, hehe.
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RE: The Mathematical Proof Thread
October 2, 2016 at 1:17 am (This post was last modified: October 2, 2016 at 1:17 am by robvalue.)
Interesting! I'll have a look at those later if my brain starts working.

Just as an aside, we don't allow 1 to be a prime number because we would lose unique factorisation of integers into primes. For example:

6 = 2 * 3 Unique

6 = 2 * 3 * 1 = 2 * 3 * 1 * 1 = ...
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