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# ABC conjecture

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In mathematics, the ABC conjecture relates the prime factors of two integers to those of their sum. It was proposed by David Masser and Joseph Oesterlé in 1985. It is connected with other problems of number theory: for example, the truth of the ABC conjecture would provide a new proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

## Statement

Define the radical of an integer to be the product of its distinct prime factors



Suppose now that the equation  holds for coprime integers . The conjecture asserts that for every  there exists  such that



The weak ABC conjecture states that



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Baker introduced a more refined version of the conjecture in 1996. Assume as before that  holds for coprime integers . Let  be the radical of  and  the number of distinct prime factors of . Then



This form of the conjecture would give very strong bounds in the method of linear forms in logarithms.

## Results

It is known that there is an effectively computable  such that