Diophantine
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Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer onalgebra. Diophantine analysis (Alg.), that branch of indeterminateanalysis which has for its object the discovery of rational valuesthat satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, forexample, to find values of x and y which make x2 y2 an exactsquare.
Diophantine meaning & definition 1 of Diophantine.
