Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/69 - Root Extraction/Solution
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $69$
- Root Extraction
- In a conversation I had with Professor Simon Greathead, the eminent mathematician, ...
- the extraction of the cube root.
- "Ah," said the professor, "it is astounding what ignorance prevails ...
- Thus, ignoring the obvious case of the number $1$, if we want the cube root of $512$, add the digits -- $8$, and there you are!"
- I suggested that that was a special case.
- "Not at all," he replied. "Take another number at random -- $4913$ -- and the digits add to $17$, the cube of which is $4913$."
- I did not presume to argue the point with the learned man,
Solution
The other numbers are:
\(\ds 5832\) | \(=\) | \(\ds 18^3\) | ||||||||||||
\(\ds 17 \, 576\) | \(=\) | \(\ds 26^3\) | ||||||||||||
\(\ds 19 \, 683\) | \(=\) | \(\ds 27^3\) |
Proof
See Sequence of Dudeney Numbers.
Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $69$. -- Root Extraction
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $120$. Root Extraction