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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.
70 is the fourth discrete sphenic number, as the first of the form . [1] It is the smallest weird number, a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect, [2] where it is also the second-smallest primitive abundant number, after 20. 70 is in equivalence with the sum between the smallest number that is the sum of two abundant numbers, and the largest that is not (24, 46).
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 ...
The sum of four cubes problem [1] asks whether every integer is the sum of four cubes of integers. It is conjectured the answer is affirmative, but this conjecture has been neither proven nor disproven. [2] Some of the cubes may be negative numbers, in contrast to Waring's problem on sums of cubes, where they are required to be positive.
In mathematics, summation is the addition of a sequence of numbers, called addends or summands; the result is their sum or total.Beside numbers, other types of values can be summed as well: functions, vectors, matrices, polynomials and, in general, elements of any type of mathematical objects on which an operation denoted "+" is defined.
Lemma: The sum of any non-empty set of distinct, non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers whose largest member is F j is strictly less than the next larger Fibonacci number F j + 1 . The lemma can be proven by induction on j. Now take two non-empty sets and of distinct non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers which have the same sum, =.
In particular, for a prime number p we have the explicit formula r 4 (p) = 8(p + 1). [2] Some values of r 4 (n) occur infinitely often as r 4 (n) = r 4 (2 m n) whenever n is even. The values of r 4 (n) can be arbitrarily large: indeed, r 4 (n) is infinitely often larger than . [2]
Every integer greater than 20161 can be written as the sum of two abundant numbers. The largest even number that is not the sum of two abundant numbers is 46. [5] An abundant number which is not a semiperfect number is called a weird number. [6] An abundant number with abundance 1 is called a quasiperfect number, although none have yet been found.