PE 66 Diophantine equation（Pell方程）

Diophantine equation

Problem 66

Consider quadratic Diophantine equations of the form:

x² – Dy² = 1

For example, when D=13, the minimal solution in x is 649² – 13×180² = 1.

It can be assumed that there are no solutions in positive integers when D is square.

By finding minimal solutions in x for D = {2, 3, 5, 6, 7}, we obtain the following:

3² – 2×2² = 1
2² – 3×1² = 1
9² – 5×4² = 1
5² – 6×2² = 1
8² – 7×3² = 1

Hence, by considering minimal solutions in x for D ≤ 7, the largest x is obtained when D=5.

Find the value of D ≤ 1000 in minimal solutions of x for which the largest value of x is obtained.

题解：

http://oeis.org/A033316

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PellEquation.html

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