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Got what it takes to disprove Euler?

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February 20, 2006
Eulermodular arithmeticAMCAIMEnumber theory

Problem Statement

One of Euler's conjectures was disproved in then 1960s by three American mathematicians when they showed there was a positive integer n n such that 133^5 \plus{} 110^5 \plus{} 84^5 \plus{} 27^5 \equal{} n^5. Find the value of n n.