Brahmagupta's problem

This problem was given in India by the mathematician Brahmagupta in 628 AD in his treatise Brahma Sputa Siddhanta:

x^{2}-92y^{2}=1

for integers $x,y>0$ .

Brahmagupta gave the smallest solution as

(x,y)=(1151,120)

.

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