Cube (algebra) however, easy to show that most numbers are not perfect cubes because "all" perfect cubes must have digital root 1, 8 or 9. That is their values modulo 9 may be only −1, 1 and 0. Moreover, the digital root of any number's cube can be determined by the remainder the number gives when divided by 3: Every positive integer can be written as the sum of nine (or fewer) positive cubes. This upper limit of nine cubes cannot be reduced because, for example, 23 cannot be written as the sum of fewer than nine positive cubes: The equation has
Magic cube classes Perfect magic cube. Nasik; A. H. Frost (1866) referred to all but the simple magic cube as Nasik!<br> C. Planck (1905) redefined "Nasik" to mean magic hypercubes of any order or dimension in which all possible lines summed correctly.<br> i.e. Nasik is a preferred alternate, and less ambiguous term for the "perfect" class.<br>Minimum correct summations required = 13"m". All pan-"r"-agonals sum correctly for "r" = 1, 2 and 3. Alternate Perfect Note that the above is a relatively new definition of "perfect". Until about 1995 there was much confusion about what constituted a "perfect" magic cube (see the discussion under