And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
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Pierre de Fermat Quote
“It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.”
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