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[โ€“] Klear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a reference to Fermat's Last Theorem.

Tl;dr is that a legendary mathematician wrote in a margin of a book that he's got a proof of a particular proposition, but that the proof is too long to fit into said margin. That was around the year 1637. A proof was finally found in 1994.

[โ€“] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I thought it must be sonething like that, I expected it to be more specific though :)