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The importance of being 259
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2016
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The number of the Mathematical Association’s new headquarters in London Road, Leicester is 259.
This number has some quite interesting features. It is for instance the sum of the three squares
32 + 52 + 32 × 52,
and the sum of four cubes
23 + 23 + 33 + 23 × 33 and 13 + 23 + 53 + 53.
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