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* Appears briefly on a blackboard in the 2000 remake of ''[[Bedazzled]]''. Satan (Elizabeth Hurley as a [[Hot Teacher]]) erases it from the list of homework assignments while commenting, "You'll never use this stuff."
* In ''[[GetBackers]]'', Lucky, the genius dog, is given a problem like this to solve. The dog answers that it's unsolveable (x = "nothing"), which is what ''really'' clues [[Insufferable Genius|Ban]] in to the fact that the whole "genius dog" thing isn't a parlor trick... the dog's actually been {{spoiler|infected with the same virus that caused apes to mutate into humans, the so-called "Missing Link Virus."}} It... doesn't make ''sense'' in context, but there is an explanation.
* One of the fictional dialogues in ''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach]]'' talks about a kind of ant colonies that never wrote down the proof to a variant of Fermat's Last Theorem (the variant is n^x + n^y = n^z, with the same conditions: n=2 has infinitely many solutions and n>2 has none<ref>It is in fact much easier to prove; try to prove it by yourself if you want to</ref>) because it is so small that it would be invisible if written in the margin.
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