Question

Does anyone know what is a taxi number which was named by incident happened with Indian mathematician Sir Ramanujan

Answer 1

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Once a famous mathematician professor G H Hardy come to visit the great Indian mathematician S Ramanujan in a taxi number 1729 . Professor Hardy described 1729 as a dull number . Ramanujan describe 1729 as an interesting number as it can be expressed as a sum of cubes in two ways 1729=1728+1=12^3+1^3

1729=1000+729=10^3+9^3.

Answer 2

its 1729 as it is sum of 2 cubes 12 cube +1 cube and 10 cube + 9 cube it is also called taxi no.