Perfect Cube

Third power, triple-confirmed.

The cube of an integer, like 8, 729 or 970299. Including 0 and 1 — and that's nearly all there is: only 101 cubes in the whole range.

101
Exact matches
1 in 9,901
Odds
0.01%
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265 EP
Base EP

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Cubes are a full order of magnitude sparser than squares: the range holds 101 of them, 0³ through 100³, or 0.01%. The gap 3k²+3k+1 between consecutive cubes grows quadratically — rolling a cube is about ten times harder than rolling a square.

A number that is both a square and a cube must be a sixth power, and the range holds exactly 11: 0⁶ through 10⁶. These double-duty powers score on both fronts and are quiet high-rollers in infinite mode.

Trivia: 1729 is the famous taxicab number — the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two ways: 1³+12³ = 9³+10³. Ramanujan blurted this out from his sickbed, and 1729 has never been dull since.

Smallest examples

Notable examples

1,729 The taxicab number: 1³+12³ = 9³+10³, Ramanujan's bedside story.
970,299 99³ — the largest cube strictly below a million.
1,000,000 100³ — the range cap is itself a perfect cube.

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