Simon Singh's Numbers - A Further Five Numbers - 1729 - The first taxicab number - BBC Sounds

Simon Singh's Numbers - A Further Five Numbers - 1729 - The first taxicab number - BBC Sounds

Simon Singh's Numbers
A Further Five Numbers

1729 - The first taxicab number

Released On: 20 Sep 2005
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1729 is the smallest number you can write as the sum of two cubes, in two different ways.

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