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A011541 Taxi-cab or Hardy-Ramanujan numbers: the smallest number that is the sum of 2 cubes in n ways (an infinite sequence). +0
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2, 1729, 87539319, 6963472309248, 48988659276962496, 24153319581254312065344 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

C. S. Calude, E. Calude and M. J. Dinneen, What is the value of Taxicab(6)?, J. Universal Computer Science, 9 (2003), 1196-1203.

R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, D1.

J. Silverman, Taxicabs and Sums of Two Cubes, American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 100, Issue 4 (Apr., 1993), 331-340.

D. Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books, NY, 1986, 165 and 189.

LINKS

Anonymous, taxicab numbers

D. J. Bernstein, Enumerating solutions to p(a) + q(b) = r(c) + s(d)

D. Bill, Durango Bill's Ramanujan Numbers and The Taxicab Problem

C. Boyer, New upper bounds on Taxicab and Cabtaxi numbers

C. S. & E. Calude and M. T. Dinneen, What is the value of Taxicab(6)?

U. Hollerbach, The sixth taxicab number is 24153319581254312065344, posting to the NMBRTHRY mailing list, Mar 09 2008

J. C. Meyrignac, The Taxicab Problem

Number Theory Archive, Sixth Taxicab Number?

I. Peterson, Math. Trek, Taxicab Numbers

I. Peterson, Math Trek, Taxicab Numbers

Randall L. Rathbun, Posting to Number Theory List

W. Schneider, Taxicab Numbers

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

D. W. Wilson, The Fifth Taxicab Number is 48988659276962496, J. Integer Sequences, Vol. 2, 1999, #99.1.9.

D. W. Wilson, Taxicab Numbers

Wikipedia, Taxicab number

CROSSREFS

Cf. A023050, A003826, A001235.

Adjacent sequences: A011538 A011539 A011540 this_sequence A011542 A011543 A011544

Sequence in context: A062585 A002490 A129061 this_sequence A080642 A108331 A113917

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,hard

AUTHOR

njas, Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com)

EXTENSIONS

David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net) reports a(6) <= 8230545258248091551205888. [But see next line! ]

Randall L. Rathbun has shown that a(6) <= 24153319581254312065344.

C. S. Calude, E. Calude and M. J. Dinneen, What is the value of Taxicab(6)?, show that with high probability, a(6) = 24153319581254312065344.

a(6) communicated by Schneelocke [Christian Schroeder] (sloane-sequences(AT)gl00on.net), Mar 09 2008

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