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Diophantine
Diˊo-phan′tine
,Adj.
Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra.
Diophantine analysis
(Alg.)
, that branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make
x
an exact square.2
+ y2