7 Jul
2006
7 Jul
'06
4:10 a.m.
In the 1995 Halloween episode of the award-winning animated sitcom The Simpsons, two-dimensional Homer Simpson accidentally jumps into the third dimension. During his journey in this strange world, geometric solids and mathematical formulas float through the air, including an innocent-looking equation: 178212 + 184112 = 192212. Most viewers surely ignored this bit of mathematical gobbledygook.
That's 1782^12 + 1841^12 = 1922^12 of course. Looks like material for this article was taken from this web site www.simpsonsmath.com Gary McGuire