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This is the 1729th time I've heard a form of this joke just in the past year. Hey, I just noticed something. 1729 is the smallest positive integer that can be

This is the 1729th time I've heard a form of this joke just in the past year. Hey, I just noticed something. 1729 is the smallest positive integer that can be written as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

jnbiche 10y ago
I noticed that property when I was 10 after the schoolmaster forced the class to write out the cubes of 1 to 20 to keep us quiet for a few hours.
- childProdigy 10y ago
  Oh yeah? Well, I noticed it when I was five, because I'm just naturally gifted.
  - bordercases 10y ago
    I'm an inside joke detection prodigy. Something is off here.
Someone 10y ago
6^3 + (−5)^3 = 216 + -125 = 91 4^3 + (+3)^3 = 64 + 27 = 91
- lbolla 10y ago
  It should be "positive" numbers. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html
- dorianm 10y ago
  1^3 + (-1)^3 = 0 0^3 + (-0)^3 = 0 ^_^
  - Someone 10y ago
    Zero isn't a positive integer.