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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An algebraic equation with two or more variables whose coefficients are integers, studied to determine all integral solutions.
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- noun number theory A
polynomial equation whose variables are only permitted to assumeinteger values
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Diophantus, third-century AD Greek mathematician.]
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