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Let's say we have a grid of regularly spaced lines in -dimensions. Whenever of these lines intersect at point, we call the point at which they intersect a lattice point. This terminology will help in higher dimensions, but a simpler way to put it is a point where all of the coordinates of that point are integers. For example, in the 2-dimensional coordinate plane where every point can be given an -coordinate and a -coordinate, if the point has coordinates where and are integers, then that point is a lattice point. To test your knowledge of lattice points, try these simple questions:
Check all points which are lattice points in the cartesian plane:
Here is a tougher question from an actual competition! The source is the AMCB (American Math Competitions) question
A lattice point in an -coordinate system is any point where both and are integers. The graph of passes through no lattice point with for all such that . What is the maximum possible value of a?
If you solved both of those questions, then you know what a lattice point is!