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H 37
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May 25, 2007
modular arithmetic
Diophantine Equations
Problem Statement
Prove that for each positive integer
n
n
n
there exist odd positive integers
x
n
x_n
x
n
and
y
n
y_n
y
n
such that
x
n
2
+
7
y
n
2
=
2
n
{x_{n}}^2 +7{y_{n}}^2 =2^n
x
n
2
+
7
y
n
2
=
2
n
.
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