Problem 225. Subdivide the Segment

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Peng Liu on 14 Jan 2017

As a future reminder for myself and those who might be interested in, this solution follows directly from the Bézout's identity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zout%27s_identity

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