"taxicab number" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: taxicab numbers [plural]
Etymology: From an anecdote of the mathematician G. H. Hardy, who went to visit Srinivasa Ramanujan in a taxicab number 1729. Hardy suggested that the number seemed unremarkable, whereupon Ramanujan identified it as having this mathematical property. Head templates: {{en-noun}} taxicab number (plural taxicab numbers)
  1. (mathematics) The nth taxicab number, typically denoted Ta(n) or Taxicab(n), is the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of two positive algebraic cubes in n distinct ways. Wikipedia link: taxicab number Categories (topical): Mathematics Synonyms: Ramanujan-Hardy number
    Sense id: en-taxicab_number-en-noun-ijHg5f6g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, sciences

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