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Proof by fucking obviousness (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a reference to Fermat's Last Theorem.

Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he's got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I thought it must be sonething like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)

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