Soit un nombre rationnelEN tel que . Est-il nécessaire que soit un entier ?
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Let where is a positive integer, and is any integer, and let’s assume that this fraction is irreducible.
Let’s define . This is an integer by assumption.
Then, we have that . This means that the only prime factorEN of has to be 2. We can therefore write for some integer ; but then , so ; but this is impossible, unless , because was supposed to be irreducible. So is an integer.
