ramanujam expressed the number 1729 in sum of cubes of two positive numbers in two different ways.
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ramanujan's pet number is 1729(one thousand seven hundred twenty-nine)
C.H.Hardy was a British mathematician. Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician. Hardy visited Ramanujan in hospital. In Hardy's words "I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." Hence the Hardy-Ramanjuran number which is 1729.
it is the smallet positive integer which can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways 1729=1+1728 =1000+729
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