February 15, 2009
Dude, I am dying!
PlayConnect
Cracked by: username , Neeraj , Dibyo , udupendra , nisha’s thambi , Atul Mathew , Raghuvansh , p vs np , Debasish , duriel , nishansolo , alephnull , svgreatest , Nakul , Gautam Dn(RV) , BASAB , Rohan , Aparna , priyananda , shrik , Logik , quaziluffy , Ananth , Mo , Ajay Parasuram , Johny Walker , Pawankumar Hegde and mach101.
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.
Check out one of the comments for more details.
Subscribe
Play
Head 2 Head
this->bb();
February 16th, 2009 at 12:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234743261 )
1. Ramanujan
2. Bender
connect:
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)
to moderators,
my 551st ans is counted twice screwing up my runlength..
http://boiledbeans.net/sl.php?u_name_=username
please correct it
February 16th, 2009 at 12:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234743606 )
1729??
February 16th, 2009 at 12:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234744077 )
Bender’s serial number is 2716057, which is expressible as the sum of two cube numbers.
The Hardy-Ramanujam number is 1729 which is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways
February 16th, 2009 at 1:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234747347 )
Quoting wiki –
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.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234747946 )
1729, the Hardy-Ramanujan number. Lots of Bender references on the wiki page.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:44 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234748640 )
1729
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″.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:45 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234748755 )
Futurama has multiple jokes on the Hardy-Ramanujan number (1729), don’t know if you want a specific gag.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234750948 )
That’s ‘Bender’ from ‘Futurama’. Apparently, he is the 1729th ‘son’ of the machine that built him and his serial is supposedly the sum of two cubes, both being references to the Ramanujan number.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:52 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234752777 )
S. Ramanjuna
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.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234756223 )
Hardy-Ramanujan number
Bender receives a Christmas card from the machine that built him labeled “Son #1729″
February 16th, 2009 at 3:52 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234756376 )
Conect – 1729, The Hardy-Ramanujam Number
Srinivasa Ramanajum and Bender(Futurama). Futurama contains several jokes about the Hardy-Ramanujan number, especially involving Bender.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234757796 )
Bender is Son #1729 which is the subject of a famous anecdote involving Ramanujam. Considering that the some of the writers and producers of Futurama have advanced mathematical degrees, googling shows a lot of other possibilities.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234759570 )
Bender’s chassis number is 1729, which is also known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234759592 )
bender’s serial no is a sum of 2 cubes , a take on ramajunam’s number 1729
February 16th, 2009 at 4:58 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234760309 )
Bender’s(from Futurama) serial number is 1729(The Hardy Ramanujan(Picture 1) number). I think this was shown on an Xmas card during one of the episodes
February 16th, 2009 at 6:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234764336 )
1729. The television show Futurama contains several jokes about the Hardy-Ramanujan number.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234771718 )
In one episode, the robot Bender receives a Christmas card from the machine that built him labeled “Son #1729″.?
February 16th, 2009 at 8:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234772119 )
Hardy-Ramanujam number – 1729
February 16th, 2009 at 8:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234774541 )
Bender’s Chassis number is 1729, a number made famous by Ramanujam
February 16th, 2009 at 9:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234777256 )
Bender is chassis number 1729!
February 16th, 2009 at 10:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234779958 )
Ramanujam.
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.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234783786 )
chassis number of bender 1729 = ramanujam number
February 16th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234785663 )
I don’t think anyone needs to answer this one. The entire trivia wrt 1729 and Bender is there on Wikipedia. :D.
Anyways… Bender is a Bending-Unit 22, serial number 2716057, chassis number 1729.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234795282 )
Ramunajan and Bender. Bender\’s chassis number is 1729, the first number that can be written in two distinct ways as the sum of two cubes (taxicab number and taxi story between G. H. Hardy and Ramunajan)
February 16th, 2009 at 5:46 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234806396 )
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
February 16th, 2009 at 6:56 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234810577 )
1729
February 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234814162 )
1729
February 16th, 2009 at 9:13 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234818793 )
Ramanjuam-Hardy number i.e 1729 on which in the serial Futurama a character (robot ) receives a christmas card labelled Son#1729
February 16th, 2009 at 11:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1234826862 )
1729–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″.
February 18th, 2009 at 5:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1234936551 )
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.