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He's hanging a lot on the taxicab story, but it turns out that he had done some investigation of that class of numbers some years before, and had written down 1
by empath75 7y ago
He's hanging a lot on the taxicab story, but it turns out that he had done some investigation of that class of numbers some years before, and had written down 1729 in one of his notebooks in that context. It's just as plausible that he just remembered it.
- gowld 7y ago> Now return to Ramanujan and see how the first thing that springs to the naive eye beholding the number 729 is that adding 81 = 9^2 turns it into 810 The article is bewildering.