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It's not obvious that the statement "if x and y are different prime factorizations, they are not equal" can be proven without proof by contradiction.
by ebola1717 11y ago
It's not obvious that the statement "if x and y are different prime factorizations, they are not equal" can be proven without proof by contradiction.
- ikeboy 11y agoI don't need such a general statement. I only need the assumption that 2 can only be prime factorized with an odd number of 2s, which is trivial.