Re: division

mareg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
In article <1115502465.827230.263490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
	leo1476@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Fermat's Last Theorem?!!!!!!!

I cannot understand why you want to invoke the FLT to prove that an odd
number cannot divide an even number?



Tha sounds wrong to me.
For example, the odd number 37 divides the even number 518.

Derek Holt.


Even simpler: 6 is divisible by 3 (actually, the smallest pair of integers to contradict this statement).
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