Pell's equation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The Diophantine equation x²-my²=1 for a given integer m, to be solved in integers x and y.

Pell's equation Pell's equations Pell equation

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

Pell-Fermat equation

Pell number

generalised Pell's equation

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