Distributed Computing Solves the 42 Problem

Distributed Computing Solves the 42 Problem

By admin on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 13:30

Our own Matthew Tedrow alerts us to an article in ScienceAlert that "[m]athematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of the natural numbers below 100 be expressed as the sum of three cubes?" Douglas Adams would be pleased.