The equation has the intercept form and only two non-negative solutions and (brown points). The difference between the solutions (as vectors) is .

The Diophantine equation , where and are relatively prime, has at least one solution, and the difference between two consecutive solutions is . If , , and , the equation has, because of this difference, at least one non-negative solution.

The equation can be written in the form and has solutions and (the magenta points). It has no non-negative solution. Any equation , has exactly one non-negative solution (the green point). It is inside the parallelogram determined by brown and magenta points.