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Little explorations with HP calculators (no Prime)
03-29-2017, 06:58 PM
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RE: Little explorations with the HP calculators
(03-16-2017 11:06 AM)Logan Wrote:  
(03-15-2017 11:56 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  in fact, many such problems are notoriously difficult, for example:

find a, b, c, n such that

a^n + b^n = c^n

It's trivial to find solutions to this, but if you add these conditions:

a, b, c, n ∈ N
a, b, c > 0
n > 2

It's suddenly a lot harder. :-)

That's not hard, I could write down my marvelous little proof but this text box is too narrow. Smile

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