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A comment on Ask HN: Find three positive integers a, b, and c.

Re:Ask HN: Find three positive integers a, b, and c by ColinWright on Monday August 01, 2011 @06:38PM (#2834843)
It's been known for hundreds of years that this is not possible. Euler gave a proof in 1770:

http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/2005/05/fermats-last-...

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

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Re:Ask HN: Find three positive integers a, b, and c by dariobarila on Monday August 01, 2011 @06:48PM (#2834871)
Excellent resource! Thanks for sharing.
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