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On a Diophantine Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. B. Roberts
J. B. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Wesley an University Middletown, Conn.
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If a1, a2, … , ak are relatively prime positive integers then the equation

always has solutions in non-negative xi for n sufficiently large. Sylvester called the number of non-negative solutions of (1) the denumerant of the equation. We shall denote the denumerant by n(a1, … , ak).

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 9 , 1957 , pp. 219 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1957

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