Pell's equation without irrational numbers

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Authors Norman John Wildberger

Publication date 16 April 2010

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2490, http://www.emis.de/journals/JIS/VOL13/Wildberger/wildberger2.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Pell's equationquadratic formStern-Brocot treeuniversal geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) General binary quadratic forms (11E16)

Abstract: We solve Pell's equation in a simple way without continued fractions or irrational numbers, and relate the algorithm to the Stern Brocot tree.

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