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star trek :: tng : 2x12 Picard: Fermat's Last Theorem. Are you familiar with it? Riker: Vaguely. I spent too many math classes daydreaming about being on a starship. Picard: Mm. When Pierre de Fermat died they found this equation scrawled in the margin of his notes. X to the nth plus Y to the nth equals Z to the nth, where n is greater than 2, which he said had no solution in whole numbers. But he also added this phrase. Remarkable proof. Riker: Yeah, that's starting to come back to me. There was no proof included. Picard: For the eight hundred years people have been trying to solve it. Riker: Including you. Picard: I find it stimulating. Also, it puts things in perspective. In our arrogance we feel we are so advanced, and yet we cannot unravel a simple knot tied by a part-time French mathematician working alone, without a computer. Riker: Captain, we've detected some sort of debris in a loose orbit. meanwhile, went ahead and proved it in 1994. i actually had no idea. even in high school and college, people were referring to this problem like it was still unproven. college was way after 1994. bit of a laugh, really -- not only does this star trek episode suddenly seem horribly out of time, but i realize most everyone has missed a huge milestone in mathematics, drifting off in the ether |
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hah yeah there's a about the grind wiles had to put in, the proof is complicated as fuck apparently. that star trek episode is cheesy but lots of fun tho, they can blame all the hammy acting in the casino as being artifacts of the book they're all re-enacting |
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have you seen the trailer for the new star trek picard thing on netflix? it has a special ninja girl who is special, 7of9 is in it(cameo), and some other shit liek data's corpse, d'oh. the boys from half in the bag ripped it apart in one of their latest episodes. |
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just watched it now, i hadn't realised it was out yet. trailer doesn't give away a lot but it's backreferencing bits from tng, like the vineyard and picard day... ready to get my geek on, is it only on amazon prime / netflix? |
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guess you can torrent it |
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bit of a pain in the arse for me, torrents... only on phone here. i guess it'll be on google play eventually, though they can be lax keeping us up to date. better call saul only had the last episode in the run like 2 weeks after netflix |
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