Sure it does. It's where the London Borough of Enfield is.

You wanna bet?

You are talking about the same more or less geographical point in terms of the actual local landscape but the name has changed, London Borough of Enfield is today where the place once was called Middlesex county till mid 60s right?


See i am right by looking at maps basically but also look here;

"Historical

Enfield Town used to be a small market town in the county of Middlesex on the edge of the forest about a day's travel north of London. As London grew, Enfield Town and its surrounds eventually became a residential suburb, with fast transport links into central London."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Enfield

You both have lived there or nearby of course at times so i am just a cyber-tourist. Last time i actually lived in UK (enough to remember the long days into 10pm etc, i was a teenager, only brief airports visitor since then).

Yes we (or i am anyway) enjoying a very dull nitty conversation.

Born and raised there. It's now on the boundary of London so the growth of the city resulted in various anomalies as to its geographical status.

By the way that is not very far from Putney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putney

Why Putney? But because this is SMP. And because close to 100 years ago Srinivasa Ramanujan was ill there visited by Hardy;

"I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." ”

The two different ways are these:

1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3

The quotation is sometimes expressed using the term "positive cubes", since allowing negative perfect cubes (the cube of a negative integer) gives the smallest solution as 91 (which is a divisor of 1729):

91 = 6^3 + (−5)^3 = 4^3 + 3^3

Numbers that are the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in n distinct ways have been dubbed "taxicab numbers". The number was also found in one of Ramanujan's notebooks dated years before the incident, and was noted by Frénicle de Bessy in 1657.

The same expression defines 1729 as the first in the sequence of "Fermat near misses" (sequence A050794 in OEIS) defined as numbers of the form 1 + z^3 which are also expressible as the sum of two other cubes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_%28number%29


And i promise you that was a browser tab nearby to the tabs i opened to find Middlesex that was opened yesterday. Its a small world sometimes.

It is always a small world. Come up with something for cab number 3448.

It is a very important cab.

This gem of a story is related by Hardy in his book: A Mathematician's Apology. It is a great read, Masque, and you should get it, if you don't already have it. The forward by C.P. Snow adds some luster to Hardy's infinitesimally small volume and is worth the purchase price just for that.

Also, Hardy was a nut about Cricket. Shows you how having a math brain warps your sense of pleasure and entertainment.

3448 is the only number in the universe equal to 3447 +1. And if that doesn't boggle your mind then Euclid was a woman.

Speaking of cricket; Lord's where people go for miracles and the home of the world famous Middlesex County Cricket club is not in Middlesex.

Anyone know which tube station it was where Ramanujan jumped under a train and survived? I can't recall but could have been in Putney (or even possibly in Middlesex).

Not sure why the cab with the # or the cab# is important and hope its for personal reasons and not made out of thin air for fun. I am not a numerologist either. Not even close.

But if it matters then;

3448=2^7*3^3-2^3 is a divisor or 95^10-1

3448=1^1+46^2+11^3 using all rising powers,

its equal to 44^2+6^3+6^4 (for 3 more rising powers)

Also

3448= 1^3+2^3+4^3+15^3 using 4 cubes,

And if you allow for negative integers too;

3448=12^3+12^3+(-2)^3

Also 3*4*4*8=384 as if 3,8,4 love each other.

There is also a cab company (that i have no relationship or knowledge of) that has 3448 in its tel number http://www.mycarpro.org/Taxicab/John...Holliday-Taxi/

http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~mss/mis...%20Apology.pdf


There is the young man's game. There is the old man's wisdom and regret.

Then there are those that are forever young. When young they try the impossible. When old regret they are no longer young because the impossible has not been met yet, but they never give up, because like children, they never stopped dreaming. And so they take their revenge, one last attempt at permanent victory, by creating AI to win everything their youth didnt or the young man (or woman) that will restart the game and try once again to win it all, with the same bitter sweet option when youth fails as well, like the ones before, only closer this time to winning before a new young man is entrusted the relentless impossible to abandon task.

To all my fellow humans i say this; Be those forever young men. The ones that will be never defeated by time. The ones that have already in their hearts won the inevitable success of complexity that they will enable one step at a time. The human epic is the father of an even greater one.

That untrue. 3447+1 also equals 3440, DUCY?

Here is an interview of a contemporary of G H Hardy, Bertrand Russell that offers the best definition of philosophy that would satisfy me lol;

3450?

Significant digits and rounding (up or down) is lame. Sissified numbering. Real men don't do that.

Real men cover all bases.

Cricket?

Oh, I wasn't talking about rounding. Exactly 3440, DUCY?

There were these three brothers at my school who were all good at cricket. One of them kept wicket once for Middlesex 2nd XI, or something. Their parents would attend matches and be supportive. Not in an overbearing, superjock way, but in a good way. They seemed like the perfect family. Then one day Dad murdered Mum, and then killed himself while on remand.

They should just have divorced. How much better.

http://literature.org/authors/tolsto...hapter-01.html

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

I don't know, Masque. People trapped in a cycle of abuse seem fairly similar to me.

I'll bite because you seem so persistent and I'm hoping this is not a lame/silly joke. No. I don't DUCY. I do however Love Lucy.

Can you (please) explain this a bit better:
How is 3447+1 exactly = 3440 ?