[taeric]

To be fair... I would imagine you could catch more than a few humans with the same trick. Specifically folk that might recognize the textbook Fermat's theorem, and miss the special case.

(Sadly, I can offer no data point, as I probably wouldn't have recognized either case...)

[judk]

y=1 isn't just a special case, it is an absolutely trivial case that is easily shown to have only a degenerate solution.

[taeric]

Apologies, I did not mean special as in edge or hard. I meant simply that it was a specific case of the same thing.

Regardless, I don't think that changes my point.