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I have a truly marvellous comment on this, which this comment box is too small to contain.


FWIW, it seems pretty clear that while Fermat briefly thought he had a proof, he fairly quickly realized it was flawed since he never mentioned this publicly and later went on to develop a proof just for the simple n=4 case.

In 1847 Gabriel Lami presented a claimed (simple) general proof to the French Academy of Sciences, only for the flawed assumption in it to be pointed out immediately at the end of his presentation! This may have been the same proof that Fermat had in mind.


Oh, so if he later published a proof for a special case (and presumably had more paper available than the book's margin :-) ), that's convinces me that he never had a correct proof. Also that he was smart enough to realize that but perhaps just forgot to or didn't erase his original margin note. :-)


I assume you meant Gabriel Lamé


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Sometimes nature is beautiful and sometimes it isn't.


Nice job, this looks great!

What's your next project going to be? Maybe we could work together!


I tried https://sanand0.github.io/llmexcel/#/ yesterday but it's very slow.

Not sure if this Claud for Excel can do the same thing and run =claude() inside Excel cells?


I use Todoist and I like it for repeating tasks:

  * A list of daily tasks small and quick too many to remember 
  * Tasks to do or check every three or four days ie about twice a week
  * Tasks to do about once a week eg hoovering.
  * Tasks to do every three months like wash house windows etc
Most days I put my todo list into ChatGPT and get it to put my todo list in order from quickest to longest.

Sometimes I ask ChatGPT to order my todo list by importance.


Thanks for sharing, this is interesting to me.


This response suggests knowledge that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is imminent.


Good question.

A while back I looked for a phone-sized eReader and was surprised there were none about at a decent price.


I struggle to see what any new device could deliver that a smartphone can't.


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