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Do C compilers disprove Fermat's Last Theorem?
(You probably already have realized this.) The reason the compiler produced code that terminated was based upon the fact that the values being altered (i.e., a, b and c) within the “while” loop are never referenced again after the loop. But, once you added code which printed the resulting values it was forced to…
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Programming LanguagesMath & Algorithms2010
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| May 1, 2010 | Do C compilers disprove Fermat's Last Theorem? by jlangenauer | 76 | 26 |
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