scientific article; zbMATH DE number 18743

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Authors C. C. Grosjean, H. De Meyer

Publication date 26 June 1992

zbMATH Keywords

cattle-problemPellian equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of number theory (11-03) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Linear equations (linear algebraic aspects) (15A06)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0728.00003.] The cattle-problem of Archimedes leads to a system of seven linear and two quadratic diophantine equations. In 1880, A. Amthor reduced the system to the Pellian equation \(t^ 2-4729494u^ 2=1\). Beginning with the standard continued fraction approach, the authors provide a detailed description of their algebraic and computational techniques in solving this and indicate corrections to Amthor's figures.

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