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A053604 Number of ways to write n as an ordered sum of 3 nonzero triangular numbers. +0
5
0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 3, 3, 1, 6, 0, 6, 3, 6, 3, 3, 9, 1, 12, 0, 6, 9, 6, 6, 6, 9, 6, 12, 0, 10, 9, 12, 6, 9, 9, 3, 18, 3, 12, 12, 9, 9, 9, 12, 10, 12, 9, 9, 18, 6, 6, 27, 6, 12, 6, 9, 18, 15, 15, 6, 21, 9, 13, 12, 9, 18, 21, 9, 6, 21, 15, 15, 15, 12, 15, 18, 15, 9 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,6

COMMENT

Fermat asserted that every number is the sum of three triangular numbers. This was proved by Gauss, who recorded in his Tagebuch entry for Jul 10 1796 that: EYPHEKA! num = DELTA + DELTA + DELTA.

REFERENCES

Mel Nathanson, Additive Number Theory: The Classical Bases, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Volume 165, Springer-Verlag, 1996. See Chapter 1.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..5050

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000217, A007294, A051611, A051533, A053604, A053603, A008443, A002636.

Sequence in context: A127801 A096597 A097994 this_sequence A066958 A066851 A167223

Adjacent sequences: A053601 A053602 A053603 this_sequence A053605 A053606 A053607

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jan 20 2000

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