Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The abc conjecture in number theory was first formulated by Oesterlé, Joseph and Masser, David in 1985. It states: For any there exists a constant , such that for every triple of positive integers a, b, c satisfying and we have , where is the product of the distinct prime divisors of n. It is a conjecture and has not yet been proven. See also: greatest common divisor (gcd) External references: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/abcConjecture.html http://www.math.unicaen.fr/~nitaj/abc.html This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.