Impossible pairs?

True or False?

For any pair of relatively prime natural numbers m m and n n , there exist integers a a and b b such that a m + b n = 1 am+bn=1

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Jordan Cahn
Dec 3, 2018

Relevant wiki: Bezout's Identity

Bézout's Identity states that for any pair of integers m m and n n , there exist integers a a and b b such that a m + b n = g c d ( m , n ) am+bn = \mathrm{gcd}(m,n) . This is a special case.

The proof of Bézout's Identity involves considering the smallest integer d d of the form a m + b n am+bn . First, using the division algorithm, show that d d is a divisor of both m m and n n . Then, use the fact that d = a m + b n d=am+bn to argue that it is the greatest common divisor.

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