Simon Singh was on this morning and said some really interesting stuff about numbers. I wouldn't mind having a read of some of his books.

1729 is the smallers number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

26 is the only number that sits directly between a square and a cube.

And his favourite insult is "Spherical bastard", since sphere's look the same no matter how you look at them.. therefore a spherical bastard is someone who is a bastard no matter how you look at them. :)

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Simon Singh was on this morning and said some really interesting stuff about numbers. I wouldn't mind having a read of some of his books.

1729 is the smallers number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

26 is the only number that sits directly between a square and a cube.

And his favourite insult is "Spherical bastard", since sphere's look the same no matter how you look at them.. therefore a spherical bastard is someone who is a bastard no matter how you look at them. :)