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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by emergie on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:57PM (#20899308)
for big numbers you can use bc (infix) or dc (rpn) calculator:

echo '((-80538738812075974)^3)+(80435758145817515^3)+(12602123297335631^3)' | bc

echo '_80538738812075974 3 ^ 80435758145817515 3 ^ 12602123297335631 3 ^ + + p' | dc

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by xelxebar on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:19PM (#20907342)
Nice! My go to calc is dc. If you're like me at all, then you might like to know that we can avoid the pipe usng the -e switch

    $ dc -e '_80538738812075974 3^ 80435758145817515 3^+ 12602123297335631 3^+p'
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