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Lynn's Approach to Fermat's Last Theorem

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There may be yet another approach to solving Fermat's Last Theorem that was solved in another way some years ago. The approach I use/employ is original and independent creation of myself. continue, Many years ago when time was young and in my Madison, Wisconsin days of circa 1968 I became aware of an idea that weighed down upon me. I worked and played with factorials in mathematics. continue, When I realized that three factorial is not the same as the number three I leaped onto a bridge in the sky. The realization was based on a difference that two factorial as, also, one factorial were equal to themselves. That is, two factorial equals two and one factorial equals one. continue, For the high school students three factorial is 3!=6, 2!=2, 1!=1, continue, I was able to demonstrate experimentally with a hand held calculator that n factorial greater than three is not equal to n to my satisfaction. continue, Fermat's Last Theorem says that x to the n plus y to the n is not solvable when set equal to r to the n, where n is equal to or greater than three. continue, A pattern emerges. We discover again that 3 to the second power plus 4 to the second power equals 5 to the second power. Also so, is 3 plus 4 equals 7. That is, using the first power. Ask what happens if we use/employ the zero power? Ask if that is simply invalid or has practical meaning? continue, My approach may be incomplete. There may be further steps to establish this approach, but I venture that this may be, also, the approach that Fermat used. Copyright 2003 Lynn H Fisher, Minneapolis Minnesota USA, Printed in the United States of America