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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

I know a guy that has multiple kids because he doesn't think condoms work, but that didn't stop Ramanujan from immediately recognizing 1729 as the smallest number expressible as the sum of two (positive) cubes in two different ways while he was sick in a hospital