I’m looking for a thread a few years back, started by a fellow who believed he had proved a theorem (if I recall correctly) about Diophantine equations - something about n terms in the m-degree having x solutions. He never was quite clear about what his claim was all about, though. Anyone recall this one?
I know the point is moot now that you found the thread you were looking for…
…but I just can’t help myself.
That thread is nothing whatsoever like the description you posted. I’m glad that people aren’t spending time on a totally futile exercise.
That’s it. I’m glad it worked out. I realize you can’t remember things you can’t remember. Mostly I think I’m amazed this doesn’t happen more often and that communication actually occurs 99% of the time. Brains are weird.
It doesn’t start that way, but by the time MLA gets going, he is talking (incoherently) about the number of solutions to some kind of equation. But yeah, I should have remembered that it started as a discussion of Fermat’s theorem