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42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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I must be missing something. Why is this significant?

I believe it’s the lowest number that did not have a known solution for x^3 + y^3 + z^3. Plus, it’s 42.

Lowest number that isn't 4 or 5 modulo 9. There are numbers that can't be expressed, the open question is whether all other numbers can be expressed

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What exactly do you think "this" is?

/~drew is their personal page and they probably hid it all to put this little gimmick as their homepage. It's commented out for easy reversal once it sails its course.

Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about "Forty-two"?

Interesting, I didn't even think of changing to "Forty-two".

You thought of using an obscure Unicode character before you thought of spelling it out? Well the good news is that you really do belong here on Hacker News :-)

Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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See also https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1169877007045296128 . I was prompted the twitter link has been submitted but wasn't able to find it. Edit: And apologies for using unicode ㊷ in the title, the ascii 42 was removed from the title after initial submission.

I spent a while trying to work out if 42 in-a-circle was some kind of operator like 42! (factorial) or the like, because those three large numbers, cubed, didn't seem to refer to anything two-digit.
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