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Topic ID: 665
Message ID: 5
#5, RE: Squares and the Pythagorean Equation
Posted by alexb on Dec-18-05 at 08:51 PM
In response to message #4
I believe that it's a standard result going back to Fermat himself that

x4 + y4 = z2

has no solution in integers. (Note the square on the right.) This is pp. 9-10 of Edwards Fermat's Last Theorem.