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		nicholassmith on Sept 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof... I've just looked at this and my face melted, so could someone say why this is important? It certainly looks impressive but it's gone over my head some what.

aaronbrethorst on Sept 4, 2012 [–]

Wikipedia has somewhat intelligible (to me) information on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture#Some_consequence...

TallboyOne on Sept 5, 2012 | [–]

I still don't particularly understand. So basically this really helps out number theory? Where does that lead to?

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