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Mar 01, 2010 13:20
Andrew Wiles, eat your heart out
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pne
March 1 2010, 18:25:59 UTC
Oops!
Reminds me of my old Casio calculator which gave an odd number when you asked it to calculate 232.
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cheeser1
March 2 2010, 22:59:26 UTC
Well, to be fair, 2^32 is an odd number to ask anyone to calculate :p
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patrickwonders
March 1 2010, 18:26:06 UTC
8^)
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en_ki
March 1 2010, 18:39:07 UTC
For the record, Wolfram Alpha indicates that this is only off by 52760118821706765378378997140774800155185880970620014081616312814496451245102847590968160489012839789723084835696729248.
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repton_infinity
March 2 2010, 03:07:56 UTC
I don't know where you found that, but I see there's a list of
Fermat near misses
, where you can find a few such errors. (e.g.
here's another
)
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en_ki
March 2 2010, 04:18:20 UTC
Yes, I got those numbers from that table. They're the best triple for n = 20.
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