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multiplicatively independent

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Definition

Two numbers whose powers never line up exactly — like 3 and 4.

A property of integers whose logarithm ratio is irrational, ensuring their integer powers can come arbitrarily close to each other but never coincide; central to the Erdős #125 proof's thinning argument.

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