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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Diophantus of Alexandria, a celebrated Greek arithmetician, who flourished in the fourth century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra.
  • adjective (Alg.) that branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x2 + y2 an exact square.

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  • adjective Alternative form of Diophantine.

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