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Comment by skunkworker | Hacker News Reader

So simple to check, yet so hard to find. I love these kind of mathematical problems.

In irb or python interpreter copy and paste

  8866128975287528**3+(-8778405442862239)**3+(-2736111468807040)**3

Though another question, are there an infinite number of possible solutions to this problem? Or just 1 solution with numbers in this length?

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> are there an infinite number of possible solutions to this problem?

Unknown. From the article:

'A major result would be to prove the conjecture that k = x³ + y³ + z³ has infinitely many solutions for every whole number k, except those k that have a remainder of 4 or 5 after being divided by 9.'

It works in your browser with javascript if it supports bigInt[0]

  8866128975287528n**3n+(-8778405442862239n)**3n+(-2736111468807040n)**3n

[0]:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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