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To: RangerM

>> When they solve Fermat’s last theorem, call me.

Are theorems solved, or proven not to be false?


31 posted on 05/24/2010 7:42:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Gene Eric
I think that increasing numbers of proofs over the past couple of centuries have relied on reductio ad absurdum.
34 posted on 05/24/2010 9:02:32 PM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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