Check sibling questions

Once Ramanujan, who was in London, was sick.

Hardy came to visit him in a Taxi.

 

This was the conversation

 

That’s a very dull number

 

From then on,

number 1729 is known as Hardy-Ramanujan Numbers

 

1729 can be expressed as

  1729 = 1 + 1728 = 1 3 + 12 3

  Or

  1729 = 729 + 1000 = 9 3 + 10 3

 

Thus,

1729 is the smallest number that can be represented as sum of two cubes in two different ways

  1. Chapter 6 Class 8 Cubes and Cube Roots
  2. Concept wise

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Davneet Singh has done his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has been teaching from the past 14 years. He provides courses for Maths, Science and Computer Science at Teachoo