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- From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Fermat's Last Theorem and the FAQ
- References: <rkaivola.722428224@mits>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.132034.24496@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:20:34 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- In article <rkaivola.722428224@mits> rkaivola@mits.mdata.fi (Risto Kaivola) writes:
- >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?
- >
- Why, yes there are . I can prove that FLT is true for all n which are
- divisible by 3. I wonder if this can be generalized.
-
- Charles Yeomans
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