Greg Egan on Nostr: In the novel I’m currently working on, which starts 800,000 years in the future, ...

In the novel I’m currently working on, which starts 800,000 years in the future, people still don’t know whether all Fermat numbers are square-free, and there is a subplot in which two of the characters devote an astronomically huge amount of resources to see if they can find a proof or a counterexample.

So if anyone wants to punish me for my LLM-scepticism they should try to settle this question before the book is published, forcing me to rewrite it to make that subplot about a different problem.