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- From: sparapan@flash.ra.anl.gov (RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing)
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- Subject: Re: Fermat
- Message-ID: <72109231527908@flash.ra.anl.gov>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 23:25:15 GMT
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- In article <2787@tymix.Tymnet.COM> rick@daffodil.tymnet.com (Rick McFarland) writes:
- >Perhaps this news group can help ....
- >
- >There is a lot of discussion in another news group about
- >
- > Fermat's "Final?" Theorem
- >
- >For all integers n > 2, there is NO integer solution for
- > n n n
- > A + B = C
-
- There are no integers that satisfy this relationship for n < 100000.
- This makes any solutions (besides 2) trivial. It may be that Fermat
- thought he had a proof that there are no integers besides 2 that
- satisfy this condition. That really would have been more interesting.
- Also, remember that all true statements cannot be proved(Godel's
- Incompleteness Theorem). Therefore, the proof of the statement that
- no integer besides 2 satisfies this condition may not exist.
-
- Rodney
-