[FOM] Baker's theorem and the WSJ

Joe Shipman JoeShipman at aol.com
Sat Nov 7 12:28:28 EST 2015


The Wall Street Journal had a puzzle today that depended on no increasing geometric progression containing a 4-term arithmetic progression as a subsequence. This follows easily from Baker's theorem, but is there an elementary way to show it?

-- JS

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