 Unimodular reduction of a discriminant-minus-four form to two squares (source code)

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= Unimodular reduction of a discriminant-minus-four form to two squares

The identity
$$
5x^2+16xy+13y^2=(x+2y)^2+(2x+3y)^2
$$
comes from an integer change-of-variable matrix of determinant $-1$. It therefore preserves the set of integers represented and reduces the form to $u^2+v^2$.

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