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A133330 Sums of exactly three positive octahedral numbers A005900. +0
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3, 8, 13, 18, 21, 26, 31, 39, 44, 46, 51, 56, 57, 64, 69, 82, 87, 89, 92, 94, 97, 105, 107, 110, 123, 130, 132, 135, 148, 153, 158, 166, 171, 173, 176, 184, 189, 191, 196, 209, 214, 232, 233, 234, 237, 238, 243, 250, 251, 255, 256, 269, 275, 276, 281, 293, 294 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENT

Pollock (1850) conjectured that every number is the sum of at most 7 octahedral numbers. If true, then every octahedral number is itself the sum of at most 7 octahedral numbers: do we have the sequences for those integers that are the sum of at most k octahedral numbers for for each k in the range 3<k<7, and the subsequences of the octahedral number values of those sequences? For example, the integers which are the sum of 3 positive octahedral numbers begin 3, 8, 13, 18, 21, 26, 31, 39, 44, 46; of those the first octahedral number is Oc(4) = Oc(2) + Oc(3) + Oc(3) = 6 + 19 + 19 = 44.

REFERENCES

Dickson, L. E. History of the Theory of Numbers, Vol. 2: Diophantine Analysis. New York: Dover, 2005, cites the Pollock reference.

Pollock, F. "On the Extension of the Principle of Fermat's Theorem of the Polygonal Numbers to the Higher Orders of Series Whose Ultimate Differences Are Constant. With a New Theorem Proposed, Applicable to All the Orders." Abs. Papers Commun. Roy. Soc. London 5, 922-924, 1843-1850.

Agustin Moreno Canadas, On sums of figurate numbers by using techniques of poset representation theory, arXiv:0806.2486.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A005900, A053676-A053678.

Sequence in context: A022807 A081766 A010064 this_sequence A095762 A138367 A016885

Adjacent sequences: A133327 A133328 A133329 this_sequence A133331 A133332 A133333

KEYWORD

easy,nonn

AUTHOR

Jonathan Vos Post (jvospost3(AT)gmail.com), Oct 18 2007

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