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Because we have displayed a positive integer that can be written as the sum of cubes in two
different ways, we are done.
There is an interesting story pertaining to this example. The English mathematician G. H.
Hardy, when visiting the ailing Indian prodigy Ramanujan in the hospital, remarked that 1729,
the number of the cab he took, was rather dull. Ramanujan replied “No, it is a very interesting
number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of cubes in two different ways.”
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