OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Consider the problem of finding all integers n such that the Pell equation x^2 - n*y^2 = -1 is solvable in integers x,y with y != 0. Beach and Williams found that there are 102662 such values of n in the range 1 <= n <= 10^6.
REFERENCES
Beach, B. D. and Williams, H. C., A numerical investigation of the Diophantine equation x^2-dy^2=-1. Proceedings of the Third Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, Fla., 1972), pp. 37-68. Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, Fla., 1972.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 30 2012
STATUS
approved