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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by travisoneill1 on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:36AM (#20896573)
All integer sets of any length would be enumerable, but that doesn't necessarily mean that one of them can be cubed and added/subtracted to make a given integer.
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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by jjtheblunt on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:17PM (#20896962)
Agreed, though enumeration of triples means you can enumerate sums of cubes of the triples...it just would take literally forever to enumerate them.
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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by baddox on Friday September 06, 2019 @04:47PM (#20899749)
You can enumerate all syntactically valid proofs too, and just check each one to see if it proves whatever proposition you’re curious about.
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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by jjtheblunt on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:13PM (#20899955)
Yep, and how tedious that would be!
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