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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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+ | This is a reference to {{w|Fermat's Last Theorem}}{{Citation needed}}, humorously implying that {{w|Pierre de Fermat}} created a similar theorem as a child. Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers ''a'', ''b'', and ''c'' satisfy the equation ''a''<sup>''n''</sup>+''b''<sup>''n''</sup>=''c''<sup>''n''</sup> for any integer value of ''n'' greater than 2. It is notable for having remained unproved for hundreds of years, despite many attempts to prove it, before {{w|Andrew Wiles}}, after first trying at age ten, finally succeeded in the 1990s, with assistance from his former student {{w|Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor}}. | ||
− | + | The young Fermat here didn't try to prove the mathematical equation, but simply tried to read it as words, treating the "+" sign as a "t" so that "A<sup>N</sup>+" can be read as "ANT". His interpretation was quickly disproved because there's no "A" between "B" and "C", and no "O" between "C" and "N". | |
− | + | In the title text, the "words" are "ANT BNECN", treating the equals sign "=" as an "E"; while "=" doesn't look especially close to "E", it is similar in that it contains horizontal bars in a horizontally symmetrical arrangement (and of course, it can be read as "equals", which begins with "E"). The text then references Wiles, asserting that he proved this modified form of Fermat's First Theorem as well by cooking this "ant bnecn" (whatever "bnecn" is) as breakfast. | |
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− | In the title text, the "words" are "ANT BNECN", treating the equals sign "=" as an "E"; while "=" doesn't look especially close to "E", it is similar in that it contains horizontal bars in a horizontally symmetrical arrangement. The text then references Wiles, asserting that he proved this modified form of Fermat's First Theorem as well by cooking this "ant bnecn" (whatever "bnecn" is) as breakfast. | ||
[[2492: Commonly Mispronounced Equations]] also contains equations pronounced as if they were words in the ordinary sense. | [[2492: Commonly Mispronounced Equations]] also contains equations pronounced as if they were words in the ordinary sense. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[A Hairy-like boy, representing Pierre de Fermat as a child, stands at a blackboard holding a piece of chalk. To his right is Miss Lenhart. The following text is somewhat crudely written on the blackboard:] | :[A Hairy-like boy, representing Pierre de Fermat as a child, stands at a blackboard holding a piece of chalk. To his right is Miss Lenhart. The following text is somewhat crudely written on the blackboard:] |