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Answer: I was looking at Bender’s chasis number 1729 for the answer, but other fundae with 1729 are also accepted.
1729 is called the Hardy-Ramanujan number. Apparently Ramanujan solved a problem on his death bed which was set by Hardy and 1729 was the answer.
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1729, the Hardy-Ramanujan number,
The television show Futurama contains several jokes about the Hardy-Ramanujan number. In one episode, the robot Bender receives a Christmas card from the machine that built him labeled “Son #1729″. Ken Keeler, a writer on the show with a Ph. D. in Applied Math, said “that ‘joke’ alone is worth six years of grad school.” In another episode, Bender’s serial number is revealed to be the sum of two cubes: his number is 2716057 = 9523 + (−951)3, while that of fellow robot Flexo is 3370318 = 1193 + 1193. (This datum is one of the pieces of evidence the episode uses to establish that Bender and Flexo are a pair of good-and-evil twins.) The starship Nimbus displays the hull registry number BP-1729, which simultaneously riffs on the USS Enterprise’s NCC-1701. Finally, the episode The Farnsworth Parabox contains a montage sequence where the heroes visit several parallel universes in rapid succession, one of which is labeled “Universe 1729″ (the universe where Fry, Leela and Bender are all giant rude talking bobbleheads). In the movie, “Bender’s Big Score”, the number of the taxi cab Fry takes home in the past is also the sum of two cubes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
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The Hardy-Ramanujam number is 1729 which is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways
References to 1729
* The television show Futurama contains several jokes about the Hardy-Ramanujan number. In one episode, the robot Bender receives a Christmas card from the machine that built him labeled “Son #1729″. Ken Keeler, a writer on the show with a Ph. D. in Applied Math, said “that ‘joke’ alone is worth six years of grad school.” In another episode, Bender’s serial number is revealed to be the sum of two cubes: his number is 2716057 = 9523 + (−951)3, while that of fellow robot Flexo is 3370318 = 1193 + 1193. (This datum is one of the pieces of evidence the episode uses to establish that Bender and Flexo are a pair of good-and-evil twins.) The starship Nimbus displays the hull registry number BP-1729, which simultaneously riffs on the USS Enterprise’s NCC-1701. Finally, the episode The Farnsworth Parabox contains a montage sequence where the heroes visit several parallel universes in rapid succession, one of which is labeled “Universe 1729″ (the universe where Fry, Leela and Bender are all giant rude talking bobbleheads). In the movie, “Bender’s Big Score”, the number of the taxi cab Fry takes home in the past is also the sum of two cubes.
Ramanujan and Bender.
The television show Futurama contains several jokes about the Hardy-Ramanujan number. In one episode, the robot Bender receives a Christmas card from the machine that built him labeled “Son #1729″.
Bender from Futurama
Bender gets a christmas card from “Son #1729″.
1729 is the Hardy-Ramanujan number. Also, Bender’s serial number is the sum of two cubes as well.
Bender receives a Christmas card from the machine that built him labeled “Son #1729″
Srinivasa Ramanajum and Bender(Futurama). Futurama contains several jokes about the Hardy-Ramanujan number, especially involving Bender.
Bender of the Futurama fame.
Connect : Chassis no. 1729.
There’s one more tribute to the number in Futurama. A spaceship in the 2nd season has 1729 in it’s name.
Anyways… Bender is a Bending-Unit 22, serial number 2716057, chassis number 1729.
Satyajit Ray and Bender (Futurama)
Futurama’s creator Matt Groening is a big fan of Ray, and named the character Apu (Simpsons) based on Ray’s Apu trilogy
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The television show Futurama contains several jokes about the Hardy-Ramanujan number. In one episode, the robot Bender receives a Christmas card from the machine that built him labeled “Son #1729″.
AFAIK, the Hardy-Ramanujam number (1729) was not the solution to a problem that Ramanujam solved on his deathbed. The anecdote is detailed in the wikipedia links that others have cited.
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