# Beal's Conjecture Revisited

DevFeed: [Beal's Conjecture Revisited](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/beal-s-conjecture-revisited-40544.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://norvig.com/beal.html>)

Published: 2015-10-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Peter Norvig](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/peter-norvig.md>)

Topics: [floating-point](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/floating-point.md>)

Tags: [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [floating-point](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/floating-point.md>), [number-theory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/number-theory.md>), [precision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/precision.md>), [program](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/program.md>)

## AI overview

An update on a program that searches for counterexamples to Beal's Conjecture, explaining why apparent counterexamples caused by floating-point arithmetic are invalid. The page also catalogs common errors in purported proofs and counterexamples.

## Source excerpt

Updating the work I did in 2000 to search for counterexamples to Beal's Conjecture. Lists some of the things that people do wrong in trying to settle the conjecture.