Contribute to McGill's "Crossnumbers" Math Magazine!

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This is probably in the wrong section. Anyway, McGill's starting an 'undergrad math magazine' in which I want to contribute a little something I came up called 'Crossnumbers' in its recreation section. The idea is really self-explanatory. I've come up with a few 'interesting' integers already, but if you can think up of something, please contribute! :smile:

The numbers are to be filled in. The clues are on the right. For example:

999999: The Feynman Point

1729: Smallest integer expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways

762: The position in the decimal expansion of a certain number at which the Feynman point occurs

4294967297: First non-prime Fermat number

7427466391: First ten-digit prime in the decimal expansion of e

etc.
 
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Sounds like fun. Is this going to be a published magazine?
 
1729: Smallest integer expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways
Not true! 0 is expressible as the sum of 2 cubes in 2 different ways, as is -1729, and... :wink:
 
Ah... but what is the smallest positive non-interesting number?
 
Come, we all know there is no such thing.
 
Since the fact that it was the smallest non-interesting number makes it "interesting". (Where "interesting" is defined as "having a property no other number has".)
 
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It'll be published and given away for free, for McGill students anyway.
 

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