Imagine David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO — a man who probably dreams in code and coffee — tossing a baffling riddle into the digital sea, daring the internet to catch it. His challenge? Add together the cubes of three absurdly colossal numbers and guess what you get. Spoiler alert: it’s not a sandwich.
(-80538738812075974)3 + 804357581458175153 + 126021232973356313 = ?
— David “JoelKatz” Schwartz (@JoelKatz) April 28, 2025
find three whole numbers that when cubed and added, equal 42. Sounds easy if you’re a three-year-old with crayons, but apparently, the universe took its sweet time.
For the record, 42 was stubborn — one of those numbers under 100 that refused to play nice with cubes until 2019, when Andrew Booker and Andrew Sutherland arrived with their digital sorcery and cracked the enigma like Prospero with a supercomputer.
The three mysterious numbers Schwartz tweeted? That’s Booker and Sutherland’s magic trio, the keys to unlocking the cube-sum kingdom of 42.
So, when Schwartz shared his riddle, it wasn’t just math flexing its bicep — it was the perfect cocktail of serious number-fu, internet memes, and a wink at anyone who’s ever wondered about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
In the strange universe of Ripple and beyond, 42 keeps its crown as the cheekiest, most inscrutable number. 🧙♂️✨
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