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Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)
- nullc 9y agoI think it would be fun to construct a similar conjecture where the same kind of probabilistic analysis says that it's very likely to be true but it is in fact false.
- kirrent 9y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018221
- robochat42 9y agoHow can he integrate the probability expression rather than do a summation? Surely there are many real values of x and y that lead to perfect powers? Yet the probability tends rapidly to zero.