Re: Computability

On Jan 13, 7:34 pm, The Dougster 22044 <DGo...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 10, 11:16 am, quasi <qu...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

You claimed to have checked it up to z = 256, but apparently you
missed the following counterexample:

(x,y,z) = (74,129,143) which has signature (6,3,3).

Wow. At first I thought this was a candidate triple, because for this
triple (x,y,z) the following are indeed all true:
[snip]
Darn. For a moment, there, I thought I'd finally be able to drop this
search! Only around 8 times as many triples to check to limit = 256,
but sooo many to limit = 65535. Dang it, Chip Eastham, you rascal,
what were we/I thinking!?

It was Oct. 24, 2006. I was only egging you on,
out of the sort of misguided optimism that led
to my previous encouragement of FLT seekers!

It's been a year since I looked at this... much
cobwebs to dust off my notes.

regards, chip
.

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