Quote by Pierre de Fermat

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.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater tha

Summary

This quote is a humorously exaggerated statement about a mathematical proposition. It suggests that any number raised to a power greater than 2 cannot be expressed as a sum of two numbers raised to the same power. While presented as a genuine claim, the author mockingly dismisses the possibility of providing a demonstration due to space limitations. In essence, the quote emphasizes the difficulty in visually proving this proposition but implicitly recognizes it as a known truth in mathematics.

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