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A018887 Waring's problem: least number of positive n-th powers needed to sum to any sufficiently large integer. +0
3
1, 4, 7, 16, 18, 27, 36, 42, 55, 63, 70, 79, 87, 95, 103, 112, 120, 129, 138, 146 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1979, th. 393

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

CROSSREFS

A018886 for small worst cases

Sequence in context: A065935 A077582 A037373 this_sequence A059014 A130665 A101534

Adjacent sequences: A018884 A018885 A018886 this_sequence A018888 A018889 A018890

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,hard

AUTHOR

njas

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