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How did they find $x^3+y^3+z^3 = 165$ which has a larger solution than $x^3+y^3+z^3 = 33$?

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问题内容

The discovery by Andrew Booker of an integer solution to,

$$N=x^3 + y^3 +z^3=33$$

$$8866128975287528^3 - 8778405442862239^3 -2736111468807040^3=33$$

got some press and Youtube mileage back in 2019. As mentioned in Booker's July 2019 article, for $0<N<1000$, there used to be $13$ unsolved $N$, namely,

$$N=33,42,114,\color{blue}{165},390,579,627,633,732,795,906,921,975$$

His article gives a solution to $N = 33,795$. Then Booker and Sutherland found $N=42$. After the article was written, Booker and Drew also found $N=906$. But this solution,

$$383344975542639445^3 -385495523231271884^3 + 98422560467622814^3=\color{blue}{165}$$

How and who found it? It was added to an MO post by Sebastien Palcoux in Oct 2019 with little information. My guess it is still by Booker and a colleague, but it would be nice to be sure.

P.S. In summary, the number of unsolved $N$ back in 2019 was reduced to just $13-5 = 8$,

$$N=114,390,579,627,633,732,921,975$$

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Lực Ta 2 票 已采纳 2026-06-20 17:06 原文

According to Section 5.B/5.2 of the following paper, it was indeed Booker and Sutherland who found the $N=165$ case in September 2019 via a computer search:

A. R. Booker and A. V. Sutherland, On a question of Mordell, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118 (2021), no. 11, Paper No. 2022377118, 11 pp.; MR4279690

B. Computations. In September 2019, we ran computations for the 11 unresolved $k\leq 1000$ listed in Eq. 1.3 on Charity Engine’s crowd-sourced compute grid consisting of approximately 500,000 personal computers. [...] This search yielded the solutions for $k = 42$, $k = 165$, and $k = 906$ listed in the Introduction.