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Some Remarkable Identities Involving Numbers

By: Rafał Ziobro  
Open Access
|Mar 2014

Abstract

The article focuses on simple identities found for binomials, their divisibility, and basic inequalities. A general formula allowing factorization of the sum of like powers is introduced and used to prove elementary theorems for natural numbers.

Formulas for short multiplication are sometimes referred in English or French as remarkable identities. The same formulas could be found in works concerning polynomial factorization, where there exists no single term for various identities. Their usability is not questionable, and they have been successfully utilized since for ages. For example, in his books published in 1731 (p. 385), Edward Hatton [3] wrote: “Note, that the differences of any two like powers of two quantities, will always be divided by the difference of the quantities without any remainer...”.

Despite of its conceptual simplicity, the problem of factorization of sums/differences of two like powers could still be analyzed [7], giving new and possibly interesting results [6].

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/forma-2014-0023 | Journal eISSN: 1898-9934 | Journal ISSN: 1426-2630
Language: English
Page range: 205 - 208
Submitted on: Sep 5, 2014
Published on: Mar 31, 2014
Published by: University of Białystok
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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