Description: First-quadrant Pell solutions are bounded away from 1. (This particular bound allows to prove exact values for the fundamental solution later.) (Contributed by Stefan O'Rear, 18-Sep-2014)
Ref | Expression | ||
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Assertion | pell1qrgap | |
Step | Hyp | Ref | Expression |
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1 | elpell1qr | |
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2 | 1 | adantr | |
3 | eldifi | |
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4 | 3 | ad4antr | |
5 | simplr | |
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6 | simp-4r | |
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7 | simprl | |
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8 | 6 7 | breqtrd | |
9 | simprr | |
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10 | pell1qrgaplem | |
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11 | 4 5 8 9 10 | syl22anc | |
12 | 11 7 | breqtrrd | |
13 | 12 | ex | |
14 | 13 | rexlimdvva | |
15 | 14 | expimpd | |
16 | 2 15 | sylbid | |
17 | 16 | ex | |
18 | 17 | com23 | |
19 | 18 | 3imp | |