Pell's equation

English

Etymology

Named by Leonhard Euler after the 17th-century mathematician John Pell, whom Euler mistakenly believed to be the first to find a general solution.

Proper noun

Pell's equation

  1. (number theory) The Diophantine equation for a given integer m, to be solved in integers x and y.

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