# Linear Diophantine Equations Solver

This calculator solves linear diophantine equations (LDE). The LDE calculator is right below, and if you want to recall what linear diophantine equations are, you can find the theory after the calculator.

#### Linear Diophantine equations

Equation

All solutions for x

All solutions for y

x

y

hidden output

hidden output

Since this is all about math, I copy some content from wikipedia for a start.

In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is a polynomial equation in two or more unknowns such that only the integer solutions are searched or studied (an integer solution is a solution such that all the unknowns take integer values). A linear Diophantine equation is an equation between two sums of monomials of degree zero or one.

The simplest linear Diophantine equation takes the form:

$ax + by = c$,

where a, b and c are given integers, x, y — unknowns.

The following theorem completely describes the solutions: This Diophantine equation has a solution (where x and y are integers) if and only if c is a multiple of the greatest common divisor of a and b. Moreover, if (x, y) is a solution, then the other solutions have the form (x + kv, y - ku), where k is an arbitrary integer, and u and v are the quotients of a and b (respectively) by the greatest common divisor of a and b.

To find the solution one can use Extended Euclidean algorithm (except for a = b = 0 where either there is an unlimited number of solutions or none).

If a and b are positive integers, we can find their GCD g using Extended Euclidean algorithm, along with $x_g$ и $y_g$, so:

$ax_g + by_g = g$.

If c is a multiple of g, the Diophantine equation $ax + by = c$ has solution, otherwise, there is no solution.

That is if c is a multiple of g, then:

$a x_g (\frac{c}{g}) + b y_g (\frac{c}{g})=c$

and one of the possible solutions is:

$x_0 = x_g (\frac{c}{g})$

$y_0 = y_g(\frac{c}{g})$

If either a or b is negative, we can solve the equation using its modulus, then change the sign accordingly.

If we know one of the solutions, we can find their general form.

Let g = GCD(a,b), and we have:

$ax_0 + by_0 = c$.

By adding $\frac{b}{g}$ to $x_0$ and subtracting $\frac{a}{g}$ from $y_0$, we get:

$a(x_0 + \frac{b}{g}) + b(y_0 - \frac{a}{g}) = ax_0+by_0 + \frac{ab}{g}-\frac{ba}{g}=c$

So, any numbers like these:
$x = x_0 + k \frac{b}{g}$

$y = y_0 - k \frac{a}{g}$,

where k is integer, are the solutions of Linear Diophantine equation.

URL copied to clipboard
PLANETCALC, Linear Diophantine Equations Solver