Ramanujan & Python
Paul Rubin
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Mon Sep 6 18:06:00 EDT 2004
Istvan Albert <ialbert at mailblocks.com> writes:
> 1**3 is 1, all he needed to know is that 12**3 is 1728
> Similarly knowing that 10**3 is 1000 is trivial, all he
> needed to know is that 9**3 is 729.
>
> Just as with squared values whenever one works with cubes
> they will tune very quickly in and start recognize the first
> 20 or so by heart in a matter of minutes...
There's another part to the question. Is there a smaller number than
1729, that's also the sum of two cubes in two distinct ways? Ramanujan
could answer that second question immediately. Can you?
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