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document.write( "If you call the integers a & b, then it's a+b < 55.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "But, if you call them a and a+1, then<BR>\n" );
document.write( "a + a+1 < 55<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Does that help?<BR>\n" );
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