S1: | A gentleman who lived alone always had two plates placed on the table at dinner time. |
P : | One day just as he sat down to dine, the cat rushed in to the room. |
Q : | One plate was for himself and other was for his cat. |
R : | she drooped a mouse into her own plate and another into her master plate. |
S : | He used to give the cat a piece of meat from his own plate. |
S6: | In this way the cat showed her gratitude to her master. |
S1: | There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney. |
P : | 'No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least. |
Q : | Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress. |
R : | It was 1729. |
S : | The best he could do, as he got to the beside was "I say Ramanujan, I thought the number of taxi I came down in was a very dull number" |
S6: | It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes. |
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