>>Last walk I went on with our local group I had a great discussion with a mathematician about Fermat's last theorem
In that case you might be interested to know that somebody has just found the 3 cube roots that add up to 42. This is the last of the numbers from 1 to 100 that was unsolved for.
i.e. if x3+y3+z3=42, what are x, y, and z? Bet you can't guess. It took a lot of computers a long time. You've probably already worked out that at least one of them will have to be negative.
tiny.cc/cubes42
I haven't checked it. I'm sure that Excel won't handle the necessary precision (there's a clue).
So most of us won't be able to argue with him even if we wanted to.
But it's good to know.
Last edited by: Manatee on Wed 11 Sep 19 at 17:18
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