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The abc-conjecture

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In the present paper we give a survey of the abc-conjecture and of its modifications and generalizations. We discuss several consequences of the conjecture. At the end of the paper there are given numerical examples giving some evidence for the conjecture.

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Browkin, J. (2000). The abc-conjecture. In: Bambah, R.P., Dumir, V.C., Hans-Gill, R.J. (eds) Number Theory. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7023-8_5

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