Numbers API - An API for interesting facts about numbers

Re:Numbers API - An API for interesting facts about numbers by adharmad on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:37PM (#3668463)

http://numbersapi.com/1729/math "1729 is a plain old number."

Can't recognize Hardy-Ramanujan number?

Also the smallest perfect number: http://numbersapi.com/6/math "6 is the smallest number of distinct isosceles right triangles that will tile an isosceles right triangle."

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Re:Numbers API - An API for interesting facts about numbers by divad12 on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:57PM (#3668538)

Ha, good catch. http://numbersapi.com/1729 (the trivia version) gives the Ramanujan fact, while we have multiple math facts for 6 (refresh a few times to get "smallest perfect number").

We're still working to build our database of facts. Feel free to send suggestions to numbersapi at google mail, and we may add a feature for user-submitted facts.

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Re:Numbers API - An API for interesting facts about numbers by spicyj on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:55PM (#3668526)

See http://numbersapi.com/1729:

> 1729 is the smallest number representable in two different ways as a sum of two positive cubes, as Ramanujan stated on the spot.

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Re:Numbers API - An API for interesting facts about numbers by Scriptor on Monday March 05, 2012 @10:29PM (#3669517)

It looks like they've fixed the one for 1729.

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Re:Numbers API - An API for interesting facts about numbers by theFco on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:51PM (#3668504)

perhaps it is a pun on Hardy, who thought it was an uninteresting number?

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