Figurate number that we can represent by a cube or a sequence of interlocked cubes.
The sequence of cube numbers is: 1, 8, 27, 64, …, n³ where n represents both the rank of the term in the sequence and the number of points on the largest cube in the figure.
Educational Notes
- It’s important to note that the number 0, which is the cube of the whole number 0, is not a cube number.
- The sequence of the cubes of natural numbers is: 0, 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, …, n³ where n refers to the whole number with position (n – 1).