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You start off with the best of intentions, but through raging incompetence, ineptitude or the plain fact that you're working in IT, things go terribly wrong and there's hell to pay. Tell us about the epic failures that have brought big ideas to their knees. Or just blame someone else.

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:19)
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I was doodling
on a napkin when i discovered this.

The formula
Xn + Yn = Zn

has no non zero integer solution when n is greater than 2.

I have a truly remarkable proof of this but alas this post is too short to contain it.
I'll be sure to write it down somewhere though...
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 18:14, 3 replies)
You're about 14 years late with that one

(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 19:32, closed)
What was that hypothesis called again?
Edit: Fermat's last.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 19:58, closed)
The general opinion
being that he was bullshitting just to piss off Pascal.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 20:57, closed)

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