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Fermat’s Theorem

 
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Jan16-04, 04:04 PM   #1
 

Fermat’s Theorem


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a cube have 6 sides and 8 corners, you cannot make one cube fit into another.

But a square has 4 sides and 4 corners, therefore you can make one fit into another.

An n-dimensional object has got lesser corners than sides, therefore you can make no n-dimensional object fit into another perfectly, when n>2.

(a + b)2 = a2 + b2 + 2ab


a b
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Inside the square, there is another square, c2.
it cuts between a and b on all 4 sides. What's left is 2ab

so a2 + b2 = c2

An n-dimensional object inside another cannot cut all sides into whole numbers since it cannot cut all sides at all for n>2.
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