Search All of the Math Forum:
Views expressed in these public forums are not endorsed by
Drexel University or The Math Forum.
|
|
dushya
Posts:
31
Registered:
11/18/09
|
|
Re: An equation
Posted:
Aug 19, 2011 11:05 AM
|
|
On Aug 19, 1:48 pm, "Philippe 92" <nos...@free.invalid> wrote:
> Tim Little wrote :
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 2011-08-19, dushya <sehrawat.dushy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 19, 5:55am, dushya <sehrawat.dushy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Does following equation has any "large" positive integer solutions for
> >>> N,M,P --
>
> >>> ((N^2)+N) ((M^2)+M) = 6 ((P^2)+P)
>
> >>> one family of solutions is, N=2, and M=P (or M=2, and N=P)
>
> >>> But I am looking for solutions in which P >3, and also one of N and M
> >>> is greater than 3.
>
> >> Correction -- I am looking for solutions in which BOTH N and M are
> >> greater than 2.
>
> > Sure, for example N=3 corresponds to triangular numbers that are twice
> > another triangular number, giving infinitely many solutions in M and
> > P. E.g.http://oeis.org/A029549
>
> > There are arbitrarily large solutions. Many of these can be found by
> > considering it in terms of the question "which natural numbers can be
> > written as the ratio of two triangular numbers?" answered e.g. at
>
> > http://mathoverflow.net/questions/69277/ratio-of-triangular-numbers
>
> Also :
> Let N = 23 (why not)
> 23*24*(M^2 + M) = 6(P^2 + P)
> that is
> 92M^2 + 92M = P^2 + P
> (a Pell equation after a suitable variable substitution)
> plugging this into the Alpetronhttp://www.alpertron.com.ar/QUAD.HTM
> gives the infinitely many solutions :
>
> M = -1, P = 0 (results into no >0 solutions)
> and also: M = 0, P = -1 (--> (515, 4944) etc)
> and also: M = -1, P = -1 (results into no >0 solutions)
> and also: M = 2, P = 23 (all >0 solutions)
> and also: M = 2, P = -24 (--> (57, 551) etc.)
> and also: M = 57, P = 551 (all >0 solutions)
> and also: M = 57, P = -552 (--> (2, 23) etc)
> With the recurrence relation :
> Mk+1 = 1151*Mk + 120*Pk + 635
> Nk+1 = 11040*Mk + 1151*Pk + 6095
>
> That is restricting to >0 solution and merging :
> (2, 23) (57, 551) (515, 4944) (5697, 54648) (132362, 1269576)
> (1186680, 11382239) (13115642, 125800823) (304698417, 2922564551)
> ...
>
> You can do this for arbitrary chosen N, as explained in the link given
> by Tim Little.
> My example gives a case for which the "1-d" in the generalized Pell's
> equation in the link results into *several* fundamental solutions.
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Philippe C., mail : chephip, with domain free.fr
> site :http://mathafou.free.fr/ (mathematical recreations)
Thank you Tim,and Philippe
|
|
|
|
