Talk:Fermat's Enigma, the sublime in all its states

I note with interest that by translating the French text of my study into English, I find formulations and ideas that will allow me to improve the French version. Claude Mariotti (discuss • contribs) 11:32, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

To translate this text from French I first use 'DeepL'. Then when I have a doubt about a word I use 'Linguee'. It seems to be the best way, not perfect of course. And it takes time... Claude Mariotti (discuss • contribs) 15:50, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia's version

This is the intro in enwiki:

In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known since antiquity to have infinitely many solutions.

I am just wondering why the page here uses x,y and z instead of a,b, and c and does not specify that those symbols are positive integers? I personally find it confusing.

Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (discuss • contribs) 19:23, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry! I completely forgot to answer. It is, specified. Regards, Claude Mariotti (discuss • contribs) 23:41, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Sorry again, I did not answered correctly to you. First of all, x, y and z are the "unknowns". And I did not specify "specified" because I wanted a text as simple as possible ("positive" is obvious for those who know mathematics a bit). Regards, 08:18, 18 March 2023 (UTC) EclairEnZ (discuss • contribs) 08:18, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

We could also use a, b and c of course. Writing x, y and z is another custõm. EclairEnZ (discuss • contribs) 08:24, 18 March 2023 (UTC)