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Compute the number of ordered pairs of integers (x,y)(x, y) such that x2+y2<2019x^{2}+y^{2}<2019 and x2+min(x,y)=y2+max(x,y)x^{2}+\min (x, y)=y^{2}+\max (x, y)

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Solution

We have x2y2=max(x,y)min(x,y)=xyx^{2}-y^{2}=\max (x, y)-\min (x, y)=|x-y| Now if xyx \neq y, we can divide by xyx-y to obtain x+y=±1x+y= \pm 1. Thus x=yx=y or x+y=±1x+y= \pm 1. If x=yx=y, we see that 2019>x2+y2=2x22019>x^{2}+y^{2}=2 x^{2}, so we see that 31x31-31 \leq x \leq 31. There are 63 ordered pairs in this case. In the second case, note that xy|x| \geq|y| since x2y2=xy0x^{2}-y^{2}=|x-y| \geq 0. Since x+y=±1x+y= \pm 1, we cannot have xy>0x y>0, so either x0,y0x \geq 0, y \leq 0, or x0,y0x \leq 0, y \geq 0. In the first case, x+y=1x+y=1; in the second case, x+y=1x+y=-1. Thus, the solutions for (x,y)(x, y) are of the form (k,1k)(k, 1-k) or (k,k1)(-k, k-1) for some k>0k>0. In either case, we must have k2+(k1)2<2019k^{2}+(k-1)^{2}<2019, which holds true for any 1k321 \leq k \leq 32 but fails for k=33k=33. There are a total of 322=6432 \cdot 2=64 solutions in this case. In summary, there are a total of 63+64=12763+64=127 integer solutions to the equation x2+min(x,y)=x^{2}+\min (x, y)= y2+max(x,y)y^{2}+\max (x, y) with x2+y2<2019x^{2}+y^{2}<2019.

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