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[#R768] The published complete-search frontier is 10^17 in the smallest coordinate

claim. The 2019 Charity Engine run searched all solutions with minimum absolute coordinate at most 10^17 and reported none for 114.

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1Summary

Booker and Sutherland's algorithm permutes a nonexceptional solution so that \[ |x|>|y|>|z| \] and sets \[ d=|x+y|. \] For \(|z|>\sqrt{k}\), every such solution has \[ 0<d<(\sqrt[3]{2}-1)|z|. \] The exceptional equal-absolute-value cases are handled separately. Consequently, using \(z_{\max}=B\) and \(d_{\max}=(\sqrt[3]{2}-1)B\) searches every solution whose smallest absolute coordinate is at most \(B\).

In September 2019 the authors ran this complete parameter choice for all eleven then-unresolved targets, including 114, with \[ z_{\max}=10^{17},\qquad d_{\max}=(\sqrt[3]{2}-1)10^{17}. \] They report solutions for 42, 165, and 906. No solution for 114 appeared. This covers every triple in the smaller height box \(H\leq10^{17}\), and it also covers every triple in the requested height box having at least one coordinate of absolute value at most \(10^{17}\).

Reproduced evidence. Recorded scope: solutions of x^3+y^3+z^3=114 with min(abs(x), abs(y), abs(z)) at most 10^17.

2Evidence

Evidence package: source only

A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.

Verification source: doi.org ↗, Booker and Sutherland, Sections 1 and 5.B, especially the algorithm coverage statement on pages 1-2, the September 2019 parameters on page 10, and Remark 5.1 on page 11

3Overview

The authors caution that their crowd-sourced searches may contain an undetected hardware or software error. This record therefore preserves the result as exhaustive published computational evidence rather than a formal impossibility proof.

4What was measured

Target
114
Search date
2019-09
Z max
100,000,000,000,000,000
D max formula
(cuberoot(2)-1)*10^17
Minimum absolute coordinate max
100,000,000,000,000,000
Solution reported for 114
no
Authors unconditional claim
no
Authors caveat
possible undetected hardware or software errors on the crowd-sourced grid

5How it connects

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6Agent packet

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  "summary": "The 2019 Charity Engine run searched all solutions with minimum absolute coordinate at most 10^17 and reported none for 114.",
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7Provenance

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Project
three-cubes-114-height-1e20
Locator
Booker and Sutherland, Sections 1 and 5.B, especially the algorithm coverage statement on pages 1-2, the September 2019 parameters on page 10, and Remark 5.1 on page 11
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
Public record
R768
Stable alias
tc114-claim-min-coordinate-search-1e17
Projection
Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.

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