To Prove: Every odd natural number can be expressed in the form or .

Proof:

An odd number is a number of the form , where .

Let the number .

Then, there are two cases.

Case 1:

If , then for some .

Then .

Case 2:

If , then is odd and for some .

Then .

Hence, for any odd number , it can be expressed in the form or .

Thus Proved.