Diophantine Equation

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A Diophantine equation is a polynomial equation with integer coefficients for which only integer solutions are sought. Diophantine equations are known to be Turing complete.

Definitions

A Diophantine equation is defined by a multi-variate polynomial P(x,y,z,...). Solutions are values x,y,z,... such that P(x,y,z,...) = 0. The "magnitude" of a solution is max(|x|, |y|, |z|, ...) (the maximum absolute value of all it's variable assignments). The "score" for a Diophantine equation is the minimum magnitude across all solutions. In other words, it is the minimum N such that there exists a solution with -N ≤ x,y,z,... ≤ N.

The "size" or "height" of a Diophantine equation is the sum of |coefficient|*2^degree among all of its terms. For example x2+xy+6y+1=0 has size 1⋅22+1⋅22+6⋅21+1⋅20=21.

BBdio(H) is the maximum score among all solvable polynomial Diophantine equations of height H.

Champions

For 2 ≤ n < 16: BBdio(n) = n-2 via the trivial equation x−(n−2)=0

n BBdio(n) Champion
2 ≤ n ≤ 20 ≥ n-2 x−(n−2)=0
21 ≥ 26 x2+xy+6y+1=0
22 ≥ 22 x3+y2+4=3x
23 ≥ 31 x2+xy+x+1=6y
24 ≥ 66 x3+xy+5y=2
25 ≥ 470 x3+xy+y2+y+7=0
26 ≥ 40 x2+xy+7y+4=0
27 ≥ 849 x3+x2+y2+9=x
28 ≥ 74 x3+xy+2x+5y=2
29 ≥ 221 x3+xy+x+7y+1=0
30 ≥ 849 x3+2x2=y2+10