Talk:Taxicab number

message: How could Hardy do anything posthumously? Kasyapa (talk) 01:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Proved by whom?

message: It would be helpful to know the origin of the name "taxicab number".  I see no connection between a taxicab and this particular type of number. Squad51 (talk) 05:13, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the blockquote from the article. LWizard @ 16:59, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Ta(5) is not displaying properly.  This looks as if it might be due to a bug in the underlying math display software.  Swapping over the last two cubes of Ta(5), ie: changing "231518^3 + 331954^3" to "331954^3 + 231518^3", seems to re-enable the display and could be used as a temporary fix.
--TristramBrelstaff (talk) 11:03, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ta(5)

message: Currently the article states that, "J. A. Dardis found Ta(5) in 1994 and it was confirmed by David W. Wilson in 1999." This is my wording. Some sources seem to state that Dardis proved the number was Ta(5). I have yet to see the original source in Personal Computer World magazine. It is possible that he merely found the number and it may be Ta(5) but was unproved until Wilson. Wilson's article cites works by Dardis so there are two likely situations, Wilson didn't know the result had already been proven by Dardis in PCW magazine or that Dardis only found the number but didn't prove it. The wording is currently such that the sentence remains valid is all cases. Jason Quinn (talk) 15:54, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the answer. Apparently Dardis did prove Ta(5) in PCW. This is based on an IP edit to the article by someone likely to be Wilson himself. Jason Quinn (talk) 00:09, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Who proved Ta(5) is correct?

message: ...never even HEARD of these until Futurama, as discussed here: http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12706160&page=0&fpart=9&vc=1#Post13173304 ( http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9291/vlcsnap4228481gy7.png ) ... Math geekery ftw! 199.214.18.25 (talk) 17:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Futurama introduced me to this concept 

message: Since Hardy lived 1977-1947, he can hardly have proved anything in 1954.
Could somebody fix this? All the best 157.157.186.24 (talk) 19:52, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hardy and Wright 

message: The number Ta(3) does not match the exact definition of a taxicab number,
since it is the second smallest number satisfying the definition of Ta(2).
Maybe it can be endowed with a different identifier, e. g. Ta(2)*.
Consequently, the identifiers of all the following taxicab numbers Ta(k) for k > 3
should be replaced by Ta(k-1).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielKonstantinMayer (talk • contribs) 15:19, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's fixed. Wexer9 (talk) 04:06, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exact definition of taxicab numbers 

message: Would be nice to explain the relevance of being cubefree. Here's one ref that does: JH Silverman, AMM 1993. For benefit of people as obtuse as me it might (anyone want to second this?) also be cute to say that, now that we have Wiles's proof, Fermat's Last Theorem guarantees that the sum of two cubic positive integers is not cubic. (And actually I see the claim that Euler much earlier resolved the case n=3 of Fermat's Last Theorem.) --Minopret (talk) 14:05, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cubefree 

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message: Hardy thinks a number is boring and Ramanujan explains to him that it is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. So why does it get called the Hardy-Ramanujan number rather than the Ramanujan number? The property was not discovered by Hardy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Universe (talk • contribs) 00:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Hardy given credit in the naming of this number? 

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