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Old April 22nd, 2007, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ecMathGeek View Post
Was my proof wrong?
Yes, because the inductive step does not hold as you have the product
of the first k r's equal to 1, the k+1 st r must be 1. So this proof only works if
all the roots are -1, but this is in general not true.

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