Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/123 - Two Cubes

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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $123$

Two Cubes
Can you find two cube numbers in integers whose difference shall be a square number?
Thus the cube of $3$ is $27$, and the cube of $2$ is $8$,
but the difference, $19$, is not here a square number.
What is the smallest possible case?


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