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A094907 Number of different nontrivial two-digit cancellations of the form (xy)/(zx) = y/z in base n. 0
0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 4, 0, 4, 0, 2, 6, 7, 0, 4, 0, 4, 10, 6, 0, 6, 6, 4, 6, 10, 0, 6, 0, 4, 8, 6, 6, 21, 0, 2, 6, 18, 0, 6, 0, 4, 18, 10, 0, 8, 10, 10, 12, 12, 0, 6, 16, 22, 14, 6, 0, 10, 0, 2, 12, 21, 12, 20, 0, 4, 10, 22, 0, 10, 0, 2, 12, 20, 14, 24, 0, 8, 24, 8, 0, 10, 28, 6, 6, 18, 0, 10 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

2,5

COMMENTS

Trivial cancellations are of the form xx/xx=x/x, e.g. 44/44 = 4/4.

REFERENCES

Boas, R. P. "Anomalous Cancellation," Ch. 6 in Mathematical Plums (Ed. R. Honsberger). Washington, DC: Math. Assoc. Amer., pp. 113-129, 1979.

Boas, R. P. "Anomalous Cancellation," The Two Year College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Autumn 1972), 21-24.

LINKS

Eric Weisstein. Anomalous Cancellation

EXAMPLE

a(10) = 4 because we have the four nontrivial base-10 cancellations 64/16 = 4/1, 65/26 = 5/2, 95/19 = 5/1, 98/49 = 8/4.

MATHEMATICA

a[n_]:= Length[(DeleteCases[ #1, {u_, u_, u_}] & )[ Position[Table[(n*x + y)/(n*z + x) == y/z, {x, 1, n - 1}, {y, 1, x - 1}, {z, 1, y - 1}], True]]]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A117192 A078729 A029906 * A158380 A051734 A157898

Adjacent sequences:  A094904 A094905 A094906 * A094908 A094909 A094910

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Rick Mabry (rmabry(AT)pilot.lsus.edu), Jun 16 2004

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