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 Post subject: Beal Prize
PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:28 am 
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The prize for this recently got up'ed to $1m. Anybody thought of searching for a counter-example?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal%27s_conjecture

Maybe somebody with a maths background could suggest an exploration strategy. I have an idea, but it's probably not the right one. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Beal Prize
PostPosted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:55 pm 
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From a guy that would know:

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As part of the process of breaking in a new data center, we ran a Beal computation in the background. If there was accounting for this, it would have cost considerably more than $1m in computing costs. No counterexamples found. So if you want to claim the prize, I suggest switching strategies to trying to prove that it is true, rather than trying to find a counterexample.


My idea was to select from a large list of known prime numbers for A, B, and C. This would save one the time it takes to check if they're co-prime.


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