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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

>>
>> Well nitpicked, sir!
>>
>
> I should probably have added a smiley - after all, it's fairly obvious
> that you already know that all real numbers are complex numbers.

I read it as with a smiley.  And replied in kind.

> Any thoughts on letting n be a Gaussian integer?

Off the top of my head it would seem unlikely.  for integer m,n then
m^ni will tend to have real and imaginary parts that are irrational
(multiples of cos n and sin n) which is going to make balancing
contributions unlikely.

But I have to state that I don't really know what I'm talking about.
I've read Singh's excellent book, and I understand the infinte-descent
arguments for n=3 and n=4, but once the modular forms come in, my head
explodes.