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The number 1729 is the Hardy-Ramanujan number, known as the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

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(1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3). It became famous from the Hardy–Ramanujan taxi story, and it’s a classic example in number theory folklore.

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