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Re:Galactic Algorithm by nabla9 on Saturday October 05, 2019 @02:27AM (#21164129)
1729 has no special meaning for the multiplication algorithm. In the paper Harvey writes:

> In Section 5 we establish (1.3) with the explicit constant K= 1728, and in Section 5.4 we list some optimisations that improve it to K= 8.

> In Section 5, we will simply take d:= 1729 (any constant larger than K would do)

Re:Galactic Algorithm by _kst_ on Saturday October 05, 2019 @05:27AM (#21164587)
So 1729 is the 42 of 4-digit numbers.
Re:Galactic Algorithm by tripzilch on Saturday October 05, 2019 @03:54AM (#21164305)
This is the curse, there are not enough small(ish) numbers for the enormous number of properties they could have, that we come up with :)