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		taeric on Oct 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using ... To be fair... I would imagine you could catch more than a few humans with the same trick. Specifically folk that might recognize the textbook Fermat's theorem, and miss the special case. (Sadly, I can offer no data point, as I probably wouldn't have recognized either case...)

judk on Oct 25, 2014 [–]

y=1 isn't just a special case, it is an absolutely trivial case that is easily shown to have only a degenerate solution.

taeric on Oct 26, 2014 | [–]

Apologies, I did not mean special as in edge or hard. I meant simply that it was a specific case of the same thing.

Regardless, I don't think that changes my point.

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