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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Sums of cubes (was Re: histrionics)
Date: 1999/09/24
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Wes Groleau wrote:
>               when Constraint_Error =>
>                 null;  -- If the sum gets a constraint error
>                        -- and the number didn't, it's not a match.
>                        -- In a block because we don't want an
>                        -- error on 9,999 to prevent checking 10,000
>                        -- (I think Robert missed this detail.)
 
   Nope, the sum of cubes of 999 is 3*729 = 2187, the sum of cubes for
9999 is
2916, etc.  If you were going for something like the tenth power it
would be an issue.
-- 

                                        Robert I. Eachus

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