It seems that advancements in technology have made mathematical trolling much more difficult. :) In case anyone is curious, the above "solutions" are called n

It seems that advancements in technology have made mathematical trolling much more difficult. :) In case anyone is curious, the above "solutions" are called near-misses, since they're almost correct. A clever person came up with an algorithm to generate interesting near-misses for low exponents. See the table on page 15: http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0005139v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0005139v1.pdf Related: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/526330/fermats-last-theorem-near-misses http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/526330/fermats-last-... Have fun!