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===Names===
===Names===


This number is called the '''Hardy-Ramanujan number''' after a conversation between Hardy and Ramanujan where Ramanujan observed that it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two distinct ways: <math>\! 1729 = 10^3 + 9^23 = 12^3 + 1^3</math>.
This number is called the '''Hardy-Ramanujan number''' after a conversation between Hardy and Ramanujan where Ramanujan observed that it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two distinct ways: <math>\! 1729 = 10^3 + 9^3 = 12^3 + 1^3</math>.


===Factorization===
===Factorization===

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Summary

Names

This number is called the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a conversation between Hardy and Ramanujan where Ramanujan observed that it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two distinct ways: .

Factorization

Properties and families

Property or family Parameter values First few numbers
Carmichael number third among them 561, 1105, 1729, ...
Poulet number (Fermat pseudoprime to base 2) sixth among them 341, 561, 645, 1105, 1387, 1729, 1905, 2047