Unlock: Vieta Jumping
A competition number theory technique: given a Diophantine equation in two variables, fix one variable, treat the equation as a quadratic in the other, and use Vieta's formulas to jump to a new integer solution. Repeated jumping produces a contradiction or forces a known base case.
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