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Friday, 24 October 2025
Exercise (1.4).13
Show that 45x + 81y= 1 has no solutions.
The $\gcd(45,81)= 9$. This does not divide 1.
Using the result of the previous
exercise
, this means the equation has no integer solutions.
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