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I just checked how many commits I had made to a certain software project (to be posted publicly soon):
$ git log --oneline | wc -l
1729Mathematicians will know immediately what I thought about. :-)
‘I had ridden in taxi-cab no. 1729, and remarked that the number (7⋅13⋅19) seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. “No,” he replied, “it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.”’
— G.H. Hardy, in conversation with Ramanujan, as related in his obituary of the latter [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.28155/page/n34/mode/1up]