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pne March 1 2010, 18:25:59 UTC
Oops!

Reminds me of my old Casio calculator which gave an odd number when you asked it to calculate 232.

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cheeser1 March 2 2010, 22:59:26 UTC
Well, to be fair, 2^32 is an odd number to ask anyone to calculate :p

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patrickwonders March 1 2010, 18:26:06 UTC
8^)

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en_ki March 1 2010, 18:39:07 UTC
For the record, Wolfram Alpha indicates that this is only off by 52760118821706765378378997140774800155185880970620014081616312814496451245102847590968160489012839789723084835696729248.

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repton_infinity March 2 2010, 03:07:56 UTC
I don't know where you found that, but I see there's a list of Fermat near misses, where you can find a few such errors. (e.g. here's another)

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en_ki March 2 2010, 04:18:20 UTC
Yes, I got those numbers from that table. They're the best triple for n = 20.

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