abc triples — mentioned by lvh

Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:35:32 GMT

The article didn't explain the abc conjecture in much detail ("The original proof is of the long-standing ABC conjecture that explores the deep nature of numbers, centred on the simple equation a + b = c."). That's unfortunate, because even though the proof is inscrutable, the conjecture itself isn't very complicated: If three numbers a, b, and c are coprime and two numbers a and b have large prime factors, then their sum c generally does not. To make that a little more formal, it means that the radical (product of distinct prime factors) of their product abc is usually less than the sum c…

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abc triples — mentioned by lvh