I now face a quandary. If I correct the error you have discovered, then the text of the original posting will no longer mislead or confuse readers who come upon it anew. But when those reads come to your comment, saying that the relational operator is reversed, they’ll then look back to the text, and mentally reverse it again….

I guess we can only hope they’ll also read this comment.

The paragraph describing the abc conjecture (starting “In 1985″) seems to have a couple of problems:

1) I’m pretty sure you mean “> c”, not “< c”, in the actual statement of the conjecture.

2) I think you’ve got the quantifiers backward in your English text. I read the text as saying that there is a single set of exceptions that works for any positive epsilon, but I think the set of exceptions would have to depend on epsilon.

1) I’m pretty sure you mean “> c”, not “