{"id":95871,"date":"2019-09-06T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/sum-of-three-cubes-for-42-finally-solved-using-real-life-planetary-computer"},"modified":"2019-09-06T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T04:27:22","slug":"sum-of-three-cubes-for-42-finally-solved-using-real-life-planetary-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/sum-of-three-cubes-for-42-finally-solved-using-real-life-planetary-computer","title":{"rendered":"Sum of three cubes for 42 finally solved\u2014using real life planetary computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wymmCdLdPvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>O.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking \u2018Sum-Of-Three-Cubes\u2019 solution for the number 33, a team led by the University of Bristol and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has solved the final piece of the famous 65-year-old maths puzzle with an answer for the most elusive number of all\u201442.<\/p>\n<p>The original problem, set in 1954 at the University of Cambridge, looked for Solutions of the Diophantine Equation x<sup>3<\/sup>+y<sup>3<\/sup>+z<sup>3<\/sup>, with k being all the numbers from one to 100.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the easily found small solutions, the problem soon became intractable as the more interesting answers\u2014if indeed they existed\u2014could not possibly be calculated, so vast were the numbers required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o. Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking \u2018Sum-Of-Three-Cubes\u2019 solution for the number 33, a team led by the University of Bristol and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has solved the final piece of the famous 65-year-old maths puzzle with an answer for the most elusive number of all\u201442. The original problem, set in 1954 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95884,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95871\/revisions\/95884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}