42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by kelnos on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:47PM (#20898581)

DDG doesn't handle it correctly either (gives the same very-large answer as Google). I assume there's some sort of integer overflow going on somewhere. Wolfram Alpha does ok, though: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28-805387388120759...

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by FreeFull on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:54PM (#20898655)

Google and Duckduckgo use floating point rather than arbitrary precision integers. Wolfram Alpha's solver is significantly more advanced (including arbitrary precision for integers and floating point numbers)

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by apaprocki on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:23PM (#20900767)

I’m actually surprised someone at Google hasn’t switched to BigInt yet in JS if the browser supports it? Googlers, front page OKR time! :)

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