6. Cubes and Cube Roots
The chapter explores the concept of cubes and cube roots, highlighting their mathematical significance and interesting patterns. It emphasizes the relationship between cubes and their prime factors, and introduces the Hardy-Ramanujan numbers, known for being expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. The chapter also covers methods for determining perfect cubes and their roots through prime factorization and provides numerous exercises to reinforce understanding.
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What we have learnt
- Numbers like 1729, 4104, 13832, are known as Hardy–Ramanujan Numbers. They can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
- Numbers obtained when a number is multiplied by itself three times are known as cube numbers.
- If in the prime factorisation of any number, each factor appears three times, then the number is a perfect cube.
- The symbol 3 denotes cube root. For example 3 27 = 3.
Key Concepts
- -- Cube Numbers
- Numbers obtained when a number is multiplied by itself three times, like 1, 8, 27, etc.
- -- HardyRamanujan Numbers
- Numbers that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
- -- Perfect Cube
- A number that can be expressed as the cube of an integer, where each factor in its prime factorization appears three times.
- -- Cube Root
- The inverse operation of cubing a number, denoted as 3, which indicates what number multiplied by itself three times yields the value.
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