Maximum possible integer square root polynomial 2: Much harder

Find the maximum possible integral value of

a 2 x 2 + b x + c \sqrt{a^2x^2+bx+c}

Where a , b , c , x {a,b,c,x} are integers, a 2 , b , c < 3000 {a^2,b,c}<3000 ; a , b , c , x > 0 {a,b,c,x}>0 ; and b is odd.


You may use a calculator. I encourage you to use only a pencil and a hand held calculator because that is how I did it. There is no shame in using wolfram alpha FOR CALCULATIONS because the numbers do get quite large.

the easier version of this is here


The answer is 2248499.

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1 solution

Trevor Arashiro
Oct 25, 2014

We are working with the most general form of this equation except that we're working with a^2 (if working with a ...things gets real)

Let y = a 2 x 2 + b c + c y=\sqrt{a^2x^2+bc+c}

Since a,b,c,x are all greater than 0, then y > a x y>ax . Thus we can represent the LHS as \(ax+n).

Squaring both sides, we get \((ax+n)^2-a^2x^2=bx+c\)

Solving for X we get x = n 2 c b 2 a n x=\dfrac{n^2-c}{b-2an} .

Rather than plugging this in for x and bashing for y, because the graph of this function will look like a "V". We can simply maximize x.

Induction leads to the following conclusions:

N must be maximized

for n to be maximized and x to be positive, a must be minimized.

for x to be positive and n to be maximized, b must be maximized.

b=2an+1 because if b=2an, then the equation can be represented as a x + c ax+\sqrt{c} . Thus it had no bound and b is EVEN. It is specified below.

c must be minimized for x to be maximized.

Thus our equation becomes

x = 149 9 2 1 2999 2 ( 1 ) ( 1499 ) x = 149 9 2 1 x=\dfrac{1499^2-1}{2999-2(1)(1499)}\Rightarrow x=1499^2-1

Plugging back in x, we get

y = 1 ( 149 9 2 1 ) 2 + 2999 ( 149 9 2 1 ) 1 y=\sqrt{1(1499^2-1)^2+2999(1499^2-1)-1}

y = 2 , 248 , 499 \therefore \boxed{y=2,248,499}

In "Solving both sides", the LHS should be ( a x + n ) 2 a 2 x 2 (ax+n)^2 - a^2x^2 .

Calvin Lin Staff - 6 years, 7 months ago

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Ahh, yes, thank you.

Trevor Arashiro - 6 years, 7 months ago

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