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- From: rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi (Risto Kaivola)
- Subject: Fermat's Last Theorem and the FAQ
- Organization: Microdata Oy
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 10:30:24 GMT
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- I haven't seen the FAQ for weeks, and I don't know if it answers my
- question. If it does, I apologize for the inconvenience.
-
- For even n (>= 2) it is trivial to show that there cannot be odd
- x, y such that
-
- (x**n) + (y**n) = (z**n).
-
- I know that FLT has been proven true for all values of the exponent
- n >=3 upto some fixed constant (quite large, I imagine). My question
- is this: Are there some other trivial cases like this, where we
- can easily show FLT to be true for infinitely many n?
-
- --
- Risto Kaivola
- (Internet address: rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi)
-