Friday 4 November 2011

Vedansi Chakraborty

In an idle moment, Vedansi Chakraborty picked up two numbers x and y such that 0<x<y<1. She wondered how to combine these simply. She wrote down the numbers: (x + y), (xy), (x/y), (y/x), (x - y), (y - x); Vedansi realized to her surprise that she had written the same number down twice. To her further surprise, noticed that she had written a second number down twice. What were her starting numbers?

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