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mathwiz3502
Oct 7, 2009, 05:36 PM
Hello, I just created a pair of equations that I believe have no counterexamples.
Do these equations new and do they have no counterexamples?
a+b=2c
ab=c^2-(a*-c)
*or b
mathwiz3502
Oct 7, 2009, 05:38 PM
Sorry, (a*-c) should be squared.
elscarta
Oct 7, 2009, 06:10 PM
a+b=2c -> c = 0.5a +0.5b
c^2 - (a-c)^2
= (0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(a-(0.5a +0.5b))^2
=(0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(0.5a -0.5b)^2
=((0.5a +0.5b)+(0.5a -0.5b))((0.5a +0.5b)-(0.5a -0.5b)) (difference of squares)
=ab
also
c^2 - (b-c)^2
= (0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(b-(0.5a +0.5b))^2
=(0.5a +0.5b)^2 -(0.5b -0.5a)^2
=((0.5a +0.5b)+(0.5b -0.5a))((0.5a +0.5b)-(0.5b -0.5a)) (difference of squares)
=ba
=ab
therefore no counterexamples.
I have seen these somewhere before, in a maths text book I think.
mathwiz3502
Oct 8, 2009, 04:05 PM
Another way is polynomials.
let's say a>b (but it really doesn't matter).
So, the mean of a and b is c.
so, let's have only 2 variables, let a-d=c and a-2d=c
So,
a(a-2d)=(a-d)^2-(a-(a-d))^2
simplify
a^2-2ad=(a-d)^2-(a-(a-d))^2
a^2-2ad=a^2-2ad+d^2-(a-(a-d))^2
a^2-2ad=a^2-2ad+d^2-(-d)^2
0=d^2-(-d)^2
0=0, but that was a little complicated.