How to cut the π \pi ?

The first few digits of π \pi read 3.14159265358979323 3.14159265358979323\cdots .

If x x and y y are considered to be positive integers, how many ordered pair solutions ( x , y ) (x,y) exist for the equation

x 2 + y 2 = 314159265358979323 x^2+y^2=314159265358979323

5 3 1 greater than 5 solutions 0

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2 solutions

It can be seen that 314159265358979323 314159265358979323 is odd. Hence, for each of the solutions ( x , y ) (x,y) , one of x , y x,y is odd and the other is even.

For the purpose of analysis, let us assume that x x is even and y y is odd.

This would mean that x 2 m o d 4 0 x^2 \mod 4 \equiv 0 and y 2 m o d 4 1 y^2 \mod 4 \equiv 1

This in turn would lead to ( x 2 + y 2 ) m o d 4 1 (x^2+y^2) \mod 4 \equiv 1

However, 314159265358979323 m o d 4 3 314159265358979323 \mod 4 \equiv 3 .

Hence, the number of solutions is 0 \boxed{0}

Yup same way........looking at mod 4....!!

Aaghaz Mahajan - 3 years ago
Jacopo Piccione
Sep 22, 2018

A very valid solution is Janardhanan's one, but I want to show that this problem could be solved with only logic. First we can notice that ( x , x ) (x,x) can't be a solution, because 314159265358979323 314159265358979323 is odd: hence all solutions are ( x , y ) (x,y) with x y x \neq y . But if ( x , y ) (x,y) is a solution, also ( y , x ) (y,x) would be one: the total number of solutions would be even. But choices are all odd, apart from 0 0 : the answer is really 0 \boxed{0} .

One of the choices is "greater than 5", which could be even.

Janardhanan Sivaramakrishnan - 2 years, 7 months ago

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