hardy.m

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% Hardy's Numbers
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% Prabhakar Subrahmanyam - [e-mail]
% June/05/2003
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% Hardy who discovered the mathematical genius in Ramanujan was a great 
% mathematician himself. He once said there are only four numbers whose sum of 
% the cubes of their individual digits add up to the number itself. If 153
% is the number, (1^3)+(5^3)+(3^3)=153.
% This program will calculate those numbers
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% Program begins - Prabhakar Subrahmanyam

clc % clear the screen before printing
clear all % clear all variables in memory

fprintf('\nHardy once said there are only four numbers whose sum of the');
fprintf('\ncubes of their individual digits add up to the number itself');
fprintf('\nIf 153 is the number, (1^3)+(5^3)+(3^3)=153\n\n');

n=3;
maxout=600;

for x=100:maxout

            first=fix(x/100); % gives the first digit
            temp_two=mod(x,100); % gives the last two digits
            second=fix(temp_two/10); % gives the second digit
            third=mod(x,10); % gives the third digit
            
            hardyx=(first^n);
            hardyy=(second^n);
            hardyz=(third^n);
            sumhardy=(hardyx+hardyy+hardyz);
            
                 if (x==hardyx+hardyy+hardyz) 
                       fprintf('%3d = %3d^3(%3d) +%3d^3(%3d) +%3d^3(%3d)\n',x,first,hardyx,second,hardyy,third,hardyz)
                 end  

end % for x