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They’re guaranteed to make your head spin. In 2019, mathematicians finally solved one of the hardestmath problems—one that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three cubes”: Find x, y, and z such that x³+y³+z³=k, for each k …
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