taxicab numbers

A form of taxicab number — The nth taxicab number, typically denoted Ta(n) or Taxicab(n), is the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of two positive algebraic cubes in n distinct ways.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of taxicab number
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