[BenLurkin]

ping

[Paladin2]

Can this provide a solution for BiXiden Inflation?

[Hot Tabasco]

I don’t know how many nights I stayed awake trying to figure that out. Good to know it’s finally been solved.

[ClearCase_guy]

I could have solved those Pell Equations, but I never got a Grant.

[Bonemaker]

No wonder I sucked in algebra!😎

[Scrambler Bob]

which can be written as x2 – dy2 = 1.

how about x=2, d=3, y=1?

I must be missing something.

[GreenHornet]

For instance, say you want to approximate 2–√, an irrational number, as a ratio of integers. It turns out that solving the Pell equation x2 – 2y2 = 1 can help you do that: 2–√ (or, more generally, d−−√) can be approximated well by rewriting the solution as a fraction of the form x/y.

I can't tell you how many bar bets I've won because I knew that.

[Recompennation]

wow and before calculators and computers
As obama said -— you think youre smart????, theres a lot of smart people-—
Lavish with —
Derisive inflection, smirk and clown smile -—
Hats off to mathimagicians

[SamAdams76]

[military cop]

..............what?

This article makes my Alabama educated head hurt.

[BobL]

The problem looks a bit gay.

[ckilmer]

I don’t understand any of it. Don’t have the wattage/brain power for that kind of thought.

What I do notice is that the rate at which mathematicians are finding solutions to ancient mathematical puzzles —has been accelerating in recent decades.

Likely because computers give them power tools for the first time.