Brahmagupta's problem
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This problem was given in India by the mathematician Brahmagupta in 628 in his treatise Brahma Sputa Siddhanta:
Solve the Pell equation
in integers.
Brahmagupta gave the smallest solution as
[edit] See also
- Brahmagupta
- Indian mathematics
- List of Indian mathematicians
- Pell's equation
- Indeterminate equation
- Diophantine equation
