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Will this be archived the same way the paper is archived? Or will it be lost in 200 years like Fermat's proof of his last theorem?
by est31 6y ago
Will this be archived the same way the paper is archived? Or will it be lost in 200 years like Fermat's proof of his last theorem?
- archgoon 6y agoWell, Github archived it's 2020 snapshot in Svalbard. This probably won't be a one off thing, so if you're concerned; upload it to a github repo and they'll probably do it again. https://archiveprogram.github.com/ https://archiveprogram.github.com/
- sukilot 6y agoThere's no evidence Fermat had anything close to a proof.
- est31 6y agoWe have the word of a world known mathematician (Fermat). But yeah if he had written down the proof somewhere that he had in mind, maybe it would have turned out to have had mistakes in it, and it wouldn't have ever become such a large story/theme that it is now. Anyways, it's important to archive the knowledge in a way that it can be understood by future humans as well. Some random website under an .edu can disappear at any moment.