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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
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Subject: Re: Fermat's Last Theorem
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Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 16:04:42 EST
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> There is no graph, published in Scientific American or elsewhere, that is
> planar and requires five colors.

I never said there was.  What I said was that Martin Gardner's column
once contained (in an April issue) a graph which PURPORTEDLY required
five colors.

I did not think it would be necessary to point out to readers of this
newsgroup that the graph was an April Fool Joke.  Martin Gardner himself
explained how to color it (with 4 colors) in a later column.

-- 

Dave Seaman
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"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."