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Subject: More mathematical shitposting
Path: you​!your-host​!warthog​!central-scrutinizer​!fpuzhpx​!plovergw​!plovervax​!shitpost​!mjd
Date: 2017-12-13T20:44:36
Newsgroup: comp.lang.haskell.math.taxicab-numbers
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People will tell you that 1729 is the smallest number that is a sum of two integer cubes in two different ways, but they are mistaken. Actually the smallest such number is 91:

$$91 = 3^3 + 4^3 = 6^3 + (-5)^3 $$

1729 is the smallest number that is a sum of two positive integer cubes in two different ways. (!!1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3.!!) People sometimes forget that cubes, unlike squares, can be negative.