The number 1729, famously known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in how many distinct ways?

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Explanation

1729 is the smallest positive integer that can be expressed as the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways: 1^3 + 12^3 and 9^3 + 10^3.