On the generalized Pillai equation
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Reese Scott; Robert Styer
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We show that the equation ±a x ± b y = c (where the ± signs are independent) has at most two solutions (x, y) for given integers a and b both greater than one and c greater than zero, except for listed specific cases. For any prime a > 5 and b = 2, we show that there are at most two values of c allo