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# 'ning

(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:02, archived)
# hahah--good call
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:03, archived)
# Hahahahaha awesome.
And good work covering the failure immediately below.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:04, archived)
# Haha =)))
(macroscian (1 like), Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:06, archived)
# hahahaha
handy slingshots though
(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:09, archived)
# hahahahahah! brilliant :D
mornin' ya'll
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:13, archived)
#
Make sure you don't criticize his work :P
(I helped save b3ta! retrofly How about a link to a picture of something funny.., Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:17, archived)
# quick, get a link that has nothing to do with it to prove everything!
very odd. (But is that a joke or another fantastic B3ta mistake becoming truth?)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:20, archived)
# toastie, you are a talented, opinionated & articulate individual
what do you expect? It's human nature to dislike those qualities :P
(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:45, archived)
# very opinionated
but also very much aware my opinion is almost certainly wrong ;)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:22, archived)
# hahahaah
excellent, Toasty
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:24, archived)
# ...yeah
because the wrong choice of pants, is going to make the primary coloured skintight bodysuits with boots & capes look really camp. ;)
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:24, archived)
# ^ pfft!
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:52, archived)
# snug
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:42, archived)
# I apologise for moving this brilliance down the board with a POAT
(I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:43, archived)
# I must confess to being too thick to understand yours
:(
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:51, archived)
# He's calling Stephen Fry a marvellous poof
as part of a pun on Fermat's last theorem, whose birthday this is.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:53, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:59, archived)
# ^ what she said
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:23, archived)
# I know the phrase "Fermat's last theorem"
but have no idea what it is or how it quantifies the marvellousness of poofs
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:59, archived)
# Aha. This makes more sense
Fermat wrote something like "x^n+y^n=z^n only when n=2. I have concocted a marvellous proof of this but this margin is too narrow to contain it". Conventional wisdom is that Fermat was trolling generations of mathematicians and didn't have a proof at all.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:10, archived)
# You've put that far more succinctly than I could!
(I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:12, archived)
# I'm not sure I didn't steal it from someone else :(
But if they don't pop up to claim it I'm happy to take all credit.

It's impossible for Fermat to have had anything similar to the actual proof of the theorem, since it relies on maths developed in the 20th century. At this point, Stephen Fry (prompted by a researcher who's been reading Wikipedia in the back room) would doubtless say that it seems likely an elementary proof could be found (due to Friedman's Grand Conjecture, of which I've never heretofore heard), but it would be insanely long.

/just been reading Wikipedia blog

Also, clicks to both images, since I've been insanely rude :)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:17, archived)
# I like the romantic notion that he really did have a proof that everyone has since overlooked
(cos he was a great big genius), but Simon Singh's book (which is fantastic) makes the point that he probably had a flawed proof along the lines of some of the later attempts.
(I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:25, archived)
# I much prefer the idea that he was trolling everyone
I like to think that mathematicians back in them olden days weren't as po-faced and serious as we all believe and instead liked to arse around like the rest of us.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:46, archived)
# Fermat was an amateur mathematician, so this was his arsing around.
Also, I have met Andrew Wiles, as he went to my college.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 11:31, archived)
# clever guy
but not clever enough to write on a bigger bit of paper
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:17, archived)
# Or maybe
clever enough not to bother, leaving us convinced in later centuries of his genius. I mean, who can remember Fermat's Penultimate Theorem? But the Last Theorem, that made him a legend!

The first mathematician to truly understand great PR.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:18, archived)
# it's a long winded way of making a play on the words proof and poof.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:38, archived)
# Excellent!
:)
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 9:57, archived)
# hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 10:39, archived)
# Ironically, when I dress up as Robin, the Boy Wonder
I have to wear a thong over the costume as it's just too damn revealing otherwise
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 11:16, archived)
# Hahahaha
Very good
(I helped save b3ta! Frogbeat, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 11:24, archived)
# A record 5th FP in the offing?
Very good :o)
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 11:52, archived)
# Would 5 be a record?
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:10, archived)
# At the same time? Would have thought so...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 13:01, archived)
# would be amazing
but unlikely, it hasn't even made the popular page
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:12, archived)
# The popular page is a strange one isn't it...?
Things suddenly appear on it from nowhere.
Your pic really deserves to get you number 5.
:D


(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:17, archived)
# not wanting to sound like a trumpet blowing cock
but I am really impressed with how well the drawing went! I obviously don't do much proper figure work any more and it came out quite good :D

But I can't take all the credit, it was inspired by a line in Caitlin Moran's book "How to be a woman" on how women have a lot of trouble with increasingly small pants "Batman doesn't have to put up with this shit" which then caused my brain to Superman and Batman discussing the logistics of thongs :)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:28, archived)
# I don't think they go onto the popular page until they drop off the board...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 13:01, archived)
# Stunning.
:D

(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:10, archived)
# hahaha
and EW!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 17 Aug 2011, 12:25, archived)
# pffft!
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 14:57, archived)
# Hahahahahaha
(herman:D, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:45, archived)
# Hahaha.....
(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 16:18, archived)