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The Diophantine equation x2-my2=1 for a given integer m, to be solved in integers x and y.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, number-theory, sciences
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History
Named by Leonhard Euler after the 17th-century mathematician John Pell, whom Euler mistakenly believed to be the first to find a general solution.
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