Let x,y be two irrational numbers in (0,1) with the property that for some non-zero integers a,b,c we have ax+by=c. I have a general question and a more specific related question.
The general question is: what can we say about the set of all integers c that can be written this way as an integer combination of x and y? In particular must there be many such c if we know that there is in particular one non-zero such c, or can it happen (for some x,y) that such a c is unique?
The more specific question is: if there is one such combination ax+by=c, must there also exist a combination a′x+b′y=c′ where a′,b′,c′ are still non-zero integers and in addition a′,b′ are coprime?
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