Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!eagle!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Fermat's Last Theorem Message-ID: <194@pucc-i> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 16:04:42 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-i.194 Posted: Mon Feb 13 16:04:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:15:46 EST References: <16403@sri-arpa.UUCP> <189@pucc-i> <447@psuvax.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 18 > 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 ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."