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I like that story, too, but note that the actual quote was:

"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Diophant...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Fermat...



Wow, being downvoted for correcting a misquote. That's HN at its best.


The vote was very harsh, but parent was laying out some kind of opposite to the quote, not misquoting


Thanks for pointing this out.

BTW, I really wish that short explainations were mandatory for downvotes. This would have cleared this up early on.


This was not a quote


Satire, not a misquote, I think.




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