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Dirk Laurie on Fri, 20 May 2016 14:28:59 +0200
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Re: What am I doing wrong?
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- To: "pari-users@pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr" <pari-users@pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr>
- Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 14:28:51 +0200
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2016-05-20 14:21 GMT+02:00 Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>:
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 01:59:14PM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>> % qfbsolve(Qfb(1,0,-5),4)
>> %2 = 0
>>
>> Why are the solutions x=3,y=1; x=7,y=3; x=18,y=8; etc not found?
>
> Because 4 is not prime:
>
> ? ?qfbsolve
> qfbsolve(Q,p): Return [x,y] so that Q(x,y)=p where Q is a binary
> quadratic form and p a prime
> number, or 0 if there is no solution.
Follow-up question: can Pari handle equations like x^2 - 5*y^2 = 4
directly, or must I write the code exploiting Diophantine approximation
of sqrt(5) by hand?