[HN Gopher] Cab Numbers
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       Cab Numbers
        
       Author : susam
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-01-21 17:37 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | madcaptenor wrote:
       | Interesting that these are called "cab numbers" - I was expecting
       | 1729 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)#As_a_Ramanujan_
       | n...), based on the story of circa 1919 involving Ramanujan. It
       | looks like Dudeney (1917) predates these - the original source is
       | his "Amusements in Mathematics"
       | (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16713/pg16713-images.ht...)
       | and he poses there a different puzzle involving numbers on taxis.
       | I guess this is just a common source of integers appearing in
       | one's environment.
        
       | cf100clunk wrote:
       | Because life is a cab array.
        
       | mahdihabibi wrote:
       | Beside the problem. What a cool book!
        
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