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by **QM deFuturo** on Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:43 pm

I found this puzzle on another site and spent several hours on it, and am utterly humbled by it! I don't even know if it is really solvable, but I'm guessing it is and I just can't figure this out. Note, I know how to apply the change of base formula, and have tried every permutation I can think of - changing both bases to 2, or 3, or xy, or log, or ln!

Any clues would be appreciated

$2 * log_2( x - 2y) = log_3(xy),\, find\, \frac{x}{y}$

QM

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by **AmySaunders** on Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:23 pm

I tried too. Can't solve it :oops:

Maybe if you just looked at it for a WHILE :wink:

by **stapel_eliz** on Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:53 pm

The consensus elsewhere seems to be that there is no nice algebraic solution to this equation. :shock:

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