Sixth power

In arithmetic and algebra the sixth power of a number n is the result of multiplying six instances of n together.

The sequence of sixth powers of integers are: They include the significant decimal numbers 106 (a million), 1006 (a short-scale trillion and long-scale billion), 10006 (a quintillion and a long-scale trillion) and so on.

The sixth powers of integers can be characterized as the numbers that are simultaneously squares and cubes.

A well-known result in number theory, proven by Rudolf Fueter and Louis J. Mordell, states that, when

[2] In the archaic notation of Robert Recorde, the sixth power of a number was called the "zenzicube", meaning the square of a cube.

[5] There are infinitely many different nontrivial solutions to the Diophantine equation[6] It has not been proven whether the equation has a nontrivial solution,[7] but the Lander, Parkin, and Selfridge conjecture would imply that it does not.

64 (2 6 ) and 729 (3 6 ) cubelets arranged as cubes ((2 2
) 3
and (3 2
) 3
,
respectively) and as squares ((2 3
) 2
and (3 3
) 2
,
respectively)