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[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I meant line 2 (it's actually a joke the math professors on the writing team of the Simpsons put in there: it doesn't disprove Fermat's Theorem, but most calculators at the time didn't have the accuracy to cumpute that directly, which is kind of the joke)

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh well spotted, you're right. I didn't twig at all.

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

There's a book on the subject by Simon Singh, where he writes about all the math jokes in the Simpsons. There are a bunch. ;)