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Pierre de Fermat gave a criterion for numbers of the form 8a + 1 and 8a + 3 to be sums of a square plus twice another square, but did not provide a proof. [1] N. Beguelin noticed in 1774 [2] that every positive integer which is neither of the form 8n + 7, nor of the form 4n, is the sum of three squares, but did not provide a satisfactory proof. [3]
In mathematics and statistics, sums of powers occur in a number of contexts: . Sums of squares arise in many contexts. For example, in geometry, the Pythagorean theorem involves the sum of two squares; in number theory, there are Legendre's three-square theorem and Jacobi's four-square theorem; and in statistics, the analysis of variance involves summing the squares of quantities.
The length of an interval of consecutive integers with property that every element has a factor in common with one of the endpoints. A059756: Sierpinski numbers: 78557, 271129, 271577, 322523, 327739, 482719, 575041, 603713, 903983, 934909, ... Odd k for which { k⋅2 n + 1 : n ∈ } consists only of composite numbers. A076336
Pythagorean triangles with integer altitude from the hypotenuse have the sum of squares of inverses of the integer legs equal to the square of the inverse of the integer altitude from the hypotenuse. Pythagorean quadruples are sets of four integers such that the sum of the squares of the first three equals the square of the fourth.
In number theory, a polite number is a positive integer that can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers. A positive integer which is not polite is called impolite . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The impolite numbers are exactly the powers of two , and the polite numbers are the natural numbers that are not powers of two.
105 is the 14th triangular number, [1] a dodecagonal number, [2] and the first Zeisel number. [3] It is the first odd sphenic number and is the product of three consecutive prime numbers. 105 is the double factorial of 7. [4] It is also the sum of the first five square pyramidal numbers. 105 comes in the middle of the prime quadruplet (101, 103 ...
G(3) is at least 4 (since cubes are congruent to 0, 1 or −1 mod 9); for numbers less than 1.3 × 10 9, 1 290 740 is the last to require 6 cubes, and the number of numbers between N and 2N requiring 5 cubes drops off with increasing N at sufficient speed to have people believe that G(3) = 4; [17] the largest number now known not to be a sum of ...
Any two consecutive integers have opposite parity. A number (i.e., integer) expressed in the decimal numeral system is even or odd according to whether its last digit is even or odd. That is, if the last digit is 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9, then it is odd; otherwise it is even—as the last digit of any even number is 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.