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Jan21-08, 05:14 PM   #1
 

Diophantine Equation...


Solve the following equation:

[tex]x^y-y^x = y^z-x^z[/tex] where [tex]x\neq y[/tex] and x, y, z are positive.

My first intuition was to solve this in terms of z using logarithms. Am I on the right track?
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