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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

Related: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/526330/fermats-last-...

Have fun!



What you really need is a "solution" that is wrong in just one digit somewhere in the middle that everyone would easily miss when comparing.


Python having easy arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic is one of the things I most like about it.




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