Problem

Source: Laurentiu Panaitopol, Romania, TST 1992

Tags: algebra proposed, algebra



Let $(a_{n})_{n\geq 1}$ and $(b_{n})_{n\geq 1}$ be the sequence of positive integers defined by $a_{n+1}=na_{n}+1$ and $b_{n+1}=nb_{n}-1$ for $n\geq 1$. Show that the two sequence cannot have infinitely many common terms. Laurentiu Panaitopol