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Fermat Wiles

January 31, 2017

Riddle in text only: a pun on 'feminine wiles' about Fermat's Last Theorem, proved centuries later by Andrew Wiles.

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Q: "What kind of cleverness does it take to get your name on an epically hard and famous theorem that you obviously don't know how to prove?"

A: "Fermat wiles."

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