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		Florin_Andrei on Sept 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes Unless in the future someone finds a useful application for this. It's happened before.

pvinis on Sept 7, 2019 [–]

Interesting. Like what?

crobertsbmw on Sept 8, 2019 | [–]

Pretty much all of mathematics was founded on "fun things to do with numbers", and then later we came up with using prime numbers for cryptography and finding Fibonacci sequences in nature, etc.

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