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		Jabbles on June 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Factoring may be easier than we think (2016) in reality all it took was one guy dedicating a couple of months of exclusive work to it This is wrong. Many professional mathematicians attacked the problem, and many useful discoveries were made before it was proved. For a brief summary, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Early_...