The Simpsons' math secrets.

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Who knew Homer Simpson was a mathematical genius? In one episode of The Simpsons, Homer sets out to disprove Fermat's last theorem, which dates back to 1637 and would perplex all but the most serious math geeks. And Homer's not the only math whiz on the show. In another episode, Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu memorizes pi to the 40,000th digit, correctly informing us that it's 1; then there's the time Lisa becomes a winning baseball manager by mastering complex statistics. Why all the math on the longest-running prime-time sitcom in American TV history? A lot of the...

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