Question

x^n+y^n=z^n; x, y, z values must be integers and n>2 but not base 10. Prove whether this is true or false for n any values >2.

Answer 1

Haha this is a totally different problem... and I believe this was famously disproved. Can't remember by whom though, nor how the proof goes.

Answer 2

^ disproved meaning?

Answer 3

true or false?

Answer 4

Oh, right. This is Fermat's Last Theorem.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatsLastTheorem.html

Answer 5

what does it mean "not base ten"?

Answer 6

not a power of ten sorry

Answer 7

where are you from smoothmath?

Answer 8

I think it means x,y,z != 10, since those are the bases. That's also a requirement of Fermat's.

Answer 9

this is fermat's last theorem, proved rather recently, and the proof is amazingly long, complicated, uses a computer, and would take many years of post graduate work to begin to understand.

Answer 10

I'm from Virginia. You?

Answer 11

Hong Kong

Answer 12

Very cool =D

Answer 13

likewise, very cool to see a fellow global citizen :] this website is awesome

Answer 14

you guys @ uni?

Answer 15

I agree. It's so awesome. I'm actually graduated and teaching high school math.

Answer 16

i'm 1 year and a bit from finishing highschool :P

Answer 17

gota sit for the SAT in may

Answer 18

and 3 maths exams...

Answer 19

and then 9 other exams... for chem/physics/economics