/* Consider quadratic Diophantine equations of the form: x2 – Dy2 = 1 For example, when D=13, the minimal solution in x is 6492 – 13×1802 = 1. It can be assumed that there are no solutions in positive integers when D is square. By finding minimal solutions in x for D = {2, 3, 5, 6, 7}, we obtain the following: 32 – 2×22 = 1 22 – 3×12 = 1 92 – 5×42 = 1 52 – 6×22 = 1 82 – 7×32 = 1 Hence, by considering minimal solutions in x for D ≤ 7, the largest x is obtained when D=5. Find the value of D ≤ 1000 in minimal solutions of x for which the largest value of x is obtained. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The value of x can be found by calculating the convergent of the continued fraction of D, right before it repeats. So if y/x is the corresponding approximation of sqrt(D) for the value of a_n of the continued fraction right before it repeats, we immediately know x. So in order to solve this we just have to combine the previous two problem solution. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Pell/ */ #include using namespace std; int gcd(int a, int b){ if(b == 0){ return a; } return gcd(b, a % b); } int gcd(int a, int b, int c){ return gcd(a, gcd(b, c)); } int p(int n, int p0, int p1){ if(n == 0){ return p0; } else if(n == 1){ return p1; } else if(n > 1){ return } return 0; } // Code yanked from problem 64 vector findCF(int n){ float x = sqrt((float)n); vector cf; if(x != sqrt(n)){ int a, b = 1, c = 1, d = 0; int bn, cn, dn, g; int b1, c1, d1; for(int i = 0; ; ++i){ a = floor((floor(b * x) + d) / c); cf.push_back(a); bn = b*c; cn = b*b*n - d*d - a*a*c*c + 2*a*c*d; dn = a*c*c - c*d; g = gcd(bn, cn, dn); b = bn / g; c = cn / g; d = dn / g; if(i == 0){ b1 = b; c1 = c; d1 = d; } else if(b1 == b && c1 == c && d1 == d){ break; } } } return cf; } int main(){ cout << "Hello this is Patrick" << endl; auto start = chrono::high_resolution_clock::now(); int maxX = 0; for(int d = 1; d <= 1000; ++d){ auto cf = findCF(d); // Insert problem 065 code once I have that fixed for big integers (cpp needs a dedicated internal library for that) } auto duration = chrono::duration_cast(chrono::high_resolution_clock::now() - start); cout << (float)duration.count()/1000 << endl; return 0; }