Check out Wednesday's Google Doodle

[pokerfan]

Pierre de Fermat’s 410th birthday! Pierre de Fermat was born on August 17, 1601 and died at the age of 63 on January 12, 1665. (Maybe Bachmann can screw up this one up as well!)



http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-doodles-pierre-de-fermats-last-theorem-on-his-410th-birth-anniversary/176204-11.html

[struggle4progress]

1. That dude, like, seriously, should have bought books with wider margins

:shrug:

[pokerfan]

2. Fermat was wrong!

1782¹² + 1841¹² = 1922¹²

(1782¹² + 1841¹²)^1/12 = 1922

Q.E.D.

[struggle4progress]

3. Calculator seems to have some issues. I got

1782^12 + 1841^12 - 1922^12 = -7.0021195 × 10^29

[pokerfan]

4. might want to check your math

because that's not what I evaluated.

[struggle4progress]

8. I reported the result from calculator, the same online program you used: as I said, it has issues

[SwissTony]

5. You can see this is false

The LHS is odd but the RHS is even.

And if 1782^12 + 1841^12 = 1922^12, then 1782^12 + 1841^12 - 1922^12 = 0 which was struggle's approach.

I'm pretty sure this is good old rounding error raising its ugly head again.

[pokerfan]

6. shhhhhhhh.....

You spoil the fun! :)

As originally seen in a Simpsons episode...

[SwissTony]

7. Sorry to spoil the party.

Never got into The Simpsons for some reason. Total number of episodes watched: 3. But I have to admit, I have heard the writers do include gems such as this one. Maybe I should watch and learn.