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[On Ramanujan] I remember once going to see him when he was lying 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."
-- G. H. Hardy in Ramanujan, London: Cambridge Univesity Press,
1940.
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