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Indeterminate system
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Mathematics/pxTouaz4">mathematics</a>, particularly in <a href="/facts/Number_theory/zhoa7zrc">number theory</a>, an indeterminate system has fewer equations than unknowns but an additional a set of constraints on the unknowns, such as restrictions that the values be integers. In modern times indeterminate equations are often called <a href="/facts/Diophantine_equations/mYaHp7oX">Diophantine equations</a>.: iii </p>