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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by conjectures on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:00AM (#20896239)
Welcome to numerical computing :D!

Btw:

julia> (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3

42

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by wglb on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:16PM (#20896958)
Or

  CL-USER> (+ (expt -80538738812075974 3)  (expt 80435758145817515 3)  (expt 12602123297335631 3))
  42
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