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I want to construct a program in such a manner that both the variables are unknown and whole number
a+b=5
a is a whole number
b is a whole number
b>a
Could you please help?
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"whole number" does not exclude negative numbers and so you would have an infinite number of solution pairs.
Is this the intention or was Terry right when he assume that 0 would be acceptable but negative numbers are not?
In case that negative numbers are OK, too, you would have to provide a limit - either a lower limit for a (runs from 2 down) or, as in the screenshot below, an upper limit for b (runs from 3 upwards):
Or are you looking for some kind of brute force attack?
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Just a different take on it. Solutions for a and b must lie on a line for any value of 't'. So we can use y=m*x+b. b>a only for t<2.5.
