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kelnos
on Sept 6, 2019
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42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
DDG doesn't handle it correctly either (gives the same very-large answer as Google). I assume there's some sort of integer overflow going on somewhere. Wolfram Alpha does ok, though:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28-805387388120759...
FreeFull
on Sept 6, 2019
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Google and Duckduckgo use floating point rather than arbitrary precision integers. Wolfram Alpha's solver is significantly more advanced (including arbitrary precision for integers and floating point numbers)
apaprocki
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I’m actually surprised someone at Google hasn’t switched to BigInt yet in JS if the browser supports it? Googlers, front page OKR time! :)
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