Smallest Differences between Fractional Parts of Square and Cube Roots/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Smallest Differences between Fractional Parts of Square and Cube Roots
According to David Wells in his Curious and Interesting Numbers of $1986$, this result is reported by J.H. Baumwell and F. Rubin in volume $9$ of Journal of Recreational Mathematics, but this has not been corroborated.
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- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $30,739$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $30,739$