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Name: Armando
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Age: 15
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My Geometry teacher showed us a video teaching us about (Z^n)not = to (X^n)+(Y^n) Known as the unsolvable problem, then how one day some guy, discovered the answere, but, he never finished the movie and never showed us the answere, What is the nth power? If there is any?


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The problem is Fermat's last theorem. The guy is Andrew Wiles. See http://sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/12_6_97/mathland.htm for the details.

Tim Mooney


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