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The problem is stated as follows: What integers n can be written as the sum of three whole-number cubes ( n = a 3 + b 3 + c 3)? And for such integers, how do you find a, b and c ? As a practical matter, the difficulty in making this calculation is that for a given n, the space of the triplets to be considered involves negative integers. This triplet space is therefore infinite, unlike the computation for the sum of squares. For that particular problem, any solution has an absolute value lower than the square root of a given n. Moreover for the sum of squares, we know perfectly well what is possible and impossible. Ancient Tibet had 42 rulers. Nyatri Tsenpo, who reigned around 127 B.C., was the first. And Langdarma, who ruled from 836 to 842 A.D. (i.e., the 42nd year of the ninth century), was the last.

This sum of three cubes puzzle, first set in 1954 at the University of Cambridge and known as the Diophantine Equation x 3+y 3+z 3=k, challenged mathematicians to find solutions for numbers 1-100. With smaller numbers, this type of equation is easier to solve: for example, 29 could be written as 3 3 + 1 3 + 1 3, while 32 is unsolvable. All were eventually solved, or proved unsolvable, using various techniques and supercomputers, except for two numbers: 33 and 42. The 42 times table chart is given below to help you learn multiplication skills. You can use 42 multiplication table to practice your multiplication skills with our online examples or print out our free Multiplication Worksheets to practice on your own. 42 Times Tables Chart For the sum of cubes, some solutions may be surprisingly large, such as the one for 156, which was discovered in 2007: Sutherland, whose specialty includes massively parallel computations, broke the record in 2017 for the largest Compute Engine cluster, with 580,000 cores on Preemptible Virtual Machines, the largest known high-performance computing cluster to run in the public cloud.What makes a number particularly interesting or uninteresting is a question that mathematician and psychologist Nicolas Gauvrit, computational natural scientist Hector Zenil and I have studied, starting with an analysis of the sequences in the OEIS. Aside from a theoretical connection to Kolmogorov complexity (which defines the complexity of a number by the length of its minimal description), we have shown that the numbers contained in Sloane’s encyclopedia point to a shared mathematical culture and, consequently, that OEIS is based as much on human preferences as pure mathematical objectivity. Problem of the Sum of Three Cubes An infinite set of solutions is also known for n = 2. It was discovered in 1908 by mathematician A. S. Werebrusov. For any integer p: The factor 2.54 is the result from the division 1 / 0.393701 (centimeter definition). Therefore, another way would be:

To calculate an inch value to the corresponding value in centimeters, just multiply the quantity in inches by 2.54 (the conversion factor). Inches to centimeters formulae To illustrate how difficult it is to find solutions to the equation n = a 3 + b 3 + c 3, let’s see what happens for n = 1 and n = 2.Booker and Sutherland discussed the algorithmic strategy to be used in the search for a solution to 42. As Booker found with his solution to 33, they knew they didn’t have to resort to trying all of the possibilities for x, y, and z. When I heard the news, it was definitely a fist-pump moment,” says Sutherland. “With these large-scale computations you pour a lot of time and energy into optimizing the implementation, tweaking the parameters, and then testing and retesting the code over weeks and months, never really knowing if all the effort is going to pay off, so it is extremely satisfying when it does.”

In ancient Egyptian mythology, during the judgment of souls, the dead had to declare before 42 judges that they had not committed any of 42 sins. For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that forty-two centimeters is approximately sixteen point five three five inches:Like other computational number theorists who work in arithmetic geometry, he was aware of the “sum of three cubes” problem. And the two had worked together before, helping to build the L-functions and Modular Forms Database (LMFDB), an online atlas of mathematical objects related to what is known as the Langlands Program. “I was thrilled when Andy asked me to join him on this project,” says Sutherland. This is another reason I really liked running this computation on Charity Engine — we actually did use a planetary-scale computer to settle a longstanding open question whose answer is 42.”

In 2009, employing a method proposed by Noam Elkies of Harvard University in 2000, German mathematicians Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans and Jörg Jahnel explored all the triplets a, b, c of integers with an absolute value less than 10 14 to find solutions for n between 1 and 1,000. The paper reporting their findings concluded that the question of the existence of a solution for numbers below 1,000 remained open only for 33, 42, 74, 114, 165, 390, 579, 627, 633, 732, 795, 906, 921 and 975. For integers less than 100, just three enigmas remained: 33, 42 and 74. But both are more interested in a simpler but computationally more challenging puzzle: whether there are more answers for the sum of three cubes for 3. You cannot get a sum of 4 or 5 (= –4). This restriction means that sums of three cubes are never numbers of the form 9 m + 4 or 9 m + 5. We thus say that n = 9 m + 4 and n = 9 m + 5 are prohibited values. Searching for Solutions According to a March 6 Economist blog post marking the 42nd anniversary of the radio program The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which preceded the novel, “ the 42nd anniversary of anything is rarely observed.” A Purely Arbitrary ChoiceThe method of using Charity Engine is similar to part of the plot surrounding the number 42 in the "Hitchhiker" novel: After Deep Thought’s answer of 42 proves unsatisfying to the scientists, who don’t know the question it is meant to answer, the supercomputer decides to compute the Ultimate Question by building a supercomputer powered by Earth … in other words, employing a worldwide massively parallel computation platform. The cases of 165, 795 and 906 were also solved recently. For integers below 1,000, only 114, 390, 579, 627, 633, 732, 921 and 975 remain to be solved. Booker and Sutherland say there are 10 more numbers, from 101-1000, left to be solved, with the next number being 114. The difficulty appears so daunting that the question “Is n a sum of three cubes?” may be undecidable. In other words, no algorithm, however clever, may be able to process all possible cases. In 1936, for example, Alan Turing showed that no algorithm can solve the halting problem for every possible computer program. But here we are in a readily describable, purely mathematical domain. If we could prove such undecidability, that would be a novelty. Note that for some integer values of n, the equation n = a 3 + b 3 + c 3 has no solution. Such is the case for all integers n that are expressible as 9 m + 4 or 9 m + 5 for any integer m (e.g., 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, 23). Demonstrating this assertion is straightforward: we use the “modulo 9” (mod 9) calculation, which is equivalent to assuming that 9 = 0 and then manipulating only numbers between 0 and 8 or between −4 and 4. When we do so, we see that: