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    Do you like math? Try solving this, no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer value of n greater than two. Can you find numbers that satisfy this? Good luck :)
     
    #1 blackbelt4eva, Mar 20, 2013
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    Wouldn't this be unsolvable? If you hadn't discounted n=2, you could have used any of the Pythagorean triples.... Are there even numbers that prove this?
     
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    LOL! Duh I should have known, but seriously wanna actually try and find an answer?
     
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    The point is to find an answer using exponents greater than 2, because of Pythagorean theorem.
     
    #5 blackbelt4eva, Mar 20, 2013

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    Try listing numbers and combinations you've tried so no one repeats them.
     
    #6 blackbelt4eva, Mar 20, 2013

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    .. are we doing your math theory homework? lol.
     
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    No :s (how did you figure it out?!?!), but seriously no it was just a theorem that someone mentioned to me with this same challenge.
     
    #8 blackbelt4eva, Mar 20, 2013

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    Lmao, don't google the answer... where is the fun in that?
     
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    I won't tell anyone, but I looked up Fermat's last theorem and it's quite interesting.
     
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    :D isn't it? Just because the problem seems so simple to grasp, but it is way more complex.
     
    #12 blackbelt4eva, Mar 20, 2013

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    I shall take this challenge, only because I like math. I'm sure if I asked my math teacher he would give me an answer right away. >.> He is the Dual enrollment teacher. Teaching college classes in high school and sheet
     
    #13 XvKarnagevX, Mar 24, 2013

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    Nope can't do it
     
    #14 XvKarnagevX, Mar 24, 2013

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    If you think its impossible, prove why.
     
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    Well I just don't have the time, really. I would really like to find out the answer but it seems like it will take a while.

    Earlier I was thinking that I found it because I was being all stupid and thinking that a^n+b^n=c^n is the same as saying (a+b)^n=c^n but nope, that isn't one of the laws of exponents
     
    #16 XvKarnagevX, Mar 24, 2013

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    Brain not compatible. Please update to 1.6.4 v1.
     
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