In number theory, the Fermat–Catalan conjecture combines ideas of Fermat's last theorem and the Catalan conjecture, hence the name. The conjecture states that the equation
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has only finitely many solutions (a,b,c,m,n,k) with distinct triplets of values (am, bn, ck); here a, b, c are positive coprime integers and m, n, k are positive integers satisfying