On Dec 8, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Solving a linear diophantine equation is an application of the Smith form. > > A quadratic diophantine equation can be solved with the Hasse-Minkowski > theorem, though thats is definitely more advanced > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse%E2%80%93Minkowski_theorem) > > If its not one of these cases then you are pretty much out of luck ;-) I know basically nothing about Diophantine equations, but they have come up in my research a few times. Is there some sort of database of which equations have been solved (or not). I'm thinking something along the lines of the OEIS that would allow you to search for an equation to find out what could be said about it. I couldn't find any such thing on google, but it seems nearly inconceivable to me that such a thing wouldn't exist. Or are number theorists just born knowing this stuff. :-) -Ivan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en.
