Diophantine equation

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A Diophantine equation, named after the Ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus, is an equation in any number of variables that only admits solutions from the ring of integers, . Their study forms a part of the branch of mathematics known as number theory.

Of particular interest are linear Diophantine equations, of the form , which may be solved by means of the extended Euclidean algorithm.