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A011541 Taxi-cab (taxicab) or Hardy-Ramanujan numbers: the smallest number that is the sum of 2 cubes in n ways (an infinite sequence). 25
2, 1729, 87539319, 6963472309248, 48988659276962496, 24153319581254312065344 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

C. Boyer, "Les nombres Taxicabs", in Dossier Pour La Science, pp. 26-28, Volume 59 (Jeux math') April/June 2008 Paris.

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, Cubic Number

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Taxicab Number

Wikipedia, Taxicab number

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

D. W. Wilson, Taxicab Numbers

CROSSREFS

Cf. A023050, A003826, A001235, A047696.

Sequence in context: A179961 A160224 A129061 * A080642 A108331 A162554

Adjacent sequences:  A011538 A011539 A011540 * A011542 A011543 A011544

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,hard

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), 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)?, 2003, show that with high probability, a(6) = 24153319581254312065344.

a(6), confirmed by Uwe Hollerbach, communicated by Christian Schroeder (chs@chs-kiel.de), Mar 09 2008

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