Linear Diophantine Equations in Two Variables

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A linear Diophantine equation in two variables has the form , with , , and integers, where solutions are sought in integers. The corresponding homogeneous equation is , and it always has infinitely many solutions , where is an integer. If is a solution of the nonhomogeneous equation, all of its solutions are of the form . Suppose and are positive and relative prime. Then the distance between two consecutive solutions is , so the equation always has a solution in non-negative integers if .

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (January 2014)
Code from: Emmanuel Garces Medina
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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