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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by yters on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:54AM (#19134441)
Sounds interesting, but not sure what you mean by:

> you'll discover that there will always be a gap if you try and combine two odd number series together

Can you elaborate?

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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by aaaaaardvark on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:58AM (#19134483)
ox_n's last theorem
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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by ox_n on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:12AM (#19134559)
Consecutive base numbers will necessarily alternate between even and odd. So even the closest base numbers still have a gap between their resulting odd number series, which only increases as the distance between base numbers increases.
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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by andrepd on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:51AM (#19134825)
Still don't get it. What do you mean by "base numbers" and what do you mean by "alternate between even and odd"?
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Re:Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016) by gowld on Monday February 11, 2019 @02:50PM (#19137639)
'ox_n appears to be trying to prove (by a pigeonhole agument) that the equation x^n + y^n = z^n in unsolvable for _some z_. That's much weaker than proving that it is unsatisfiable at _every_ z.
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