Some anonymous agent wrote:
Eric Hughes mentions that 1729 is the next Carmichael number... not quite true. 1105 is the next Carmichael number. (But congrats Eric for even remembering the third one!) ;)
I suspect Eric's memory was influenced by his memories of last Saturday night, after the Cyperpunks meeting and after the Dave Emory lecture a half dozen of us saw that evening. We all decided to attend the midnight showing at the Stanford Theater of a new Indian film, "Rendezvous with Ramanujan," based of course on the famous Arthur C. Clarke novel, and directed by noted British director, G. H. Hardy (no relation to Norm Hardy). Our taxi had the license plate number "RSA-1729," which we took to be a pun about the next big factoring project. After all, 1729 is a rather unremarkable number. The taxi driver, an unemployed mathematician named Ted Streleski, was heard muttering, "Some squares, some cubes." --Klaus! von Future Prime (channeled by Tim May) -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."