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Indian Mathematical Olympiad 1987 - Problem 1
Source:
8/13/2009
Given
m
m
m
and
n
n
n
as relatively prime positive integers greater than one, show that
log
10
m
log
10
n
\frac{\log_{10} m}{\log_{10} n}
lo
g
10
n
lo
g
10
m
is not a rational number.
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