Saturday 25 March 2017

Multiples of 2 numbers that differ by 1

I have 2 known positive integers, $a$ and $b$ . Is there a ' standard ' formula to find the lowest (if possible) positive integers $x$ and $y$ , so that the following is true?





$$xa = yb + 1$$


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