The Diophantine Equation arctan(1/x)+arctan(m/y)= arctan(1/k)

Details The Diophantine Equation arctan(1/x)+arctan(m/y)= arctan(1/k) The Diophantine Equation arctan(1/x)+arctan(m/y)= arctan(1/k)

2012-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/1203.6380v1

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General Mathematics

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In the fall 2011 issue of the Journal'Mathematics and Computer Education', author Unal Hasan, in the one page article "Proof without Words", gives a purely geometric proof of the equality, arctan(1/3)+ arctan(1/7) = arctan(1/2) (1) (See reference [1]) Now consider the two-variable diophantine equation(x and y being positive integer variables), arctan(1/x) + arctan(m/y) = arctan(1/k) (2), where m and k are given or fixed positive integers with gcd(m,k^2+1)=1;and also with gcd(m,y)=1. Equality (1) then says that the pair (3,7)is a positive integer solution to (2) in the case m=1=k. We prove, in Theorem1(a,) that equation (2) has exactly N(number of positive divisors of k^2+1) distinct positive integer solutions (x,y), given by x=k+m(k^2+1)/d, y=km+d; d a positive divisor of k^2+1. As a result of Th.1, we list nine arctangent equalities in Section5 of this article, including inequality (1) above.

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