A000404 Numbers that are the sum of 2 nonzero squares.

2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 29, 32, 34, 37, 40, 41, 45, 50, 52, 53, 58, 61, 65, 68, 72, 73, 74, 80, 82, 85, 89, 90, 97, 98, 100, 101, 104, 106, 109, 113, 116, 117, 122, 125, 128, 130, 136, 137, 145, 146, 148, 149, 153, 157, 160, 162, 164, 169, 170, 173, 178

Offset: 1

Author

N. J. A. Sloane and J. H. Conway

Keywords

• nonn
• nice
• easy

Comments

From the formula it is easy to see that if k is in this sequence, then so are all odd powers of k. - T. D. Noe, Jan 13 2009

Also numbers whose cubes are the sum of two nonzero squares. - Joe Namnath and Lawrence Sze

A line perpendicular to y=mx has its first integral y-intercept at a^2+b^2. The remaining ones for that slope are multiples of that primitive value. - Larry J Zimmermann, Aug 19 2010

The primes in this sequence are sequence A002313.

Complement of A018825; A025426(a(n)) > 0; A063725(a(n)) > 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 16 2011

If the two squares are not equal, then any power is still in the sequence: if k = x^2 + y^2 with x != y, then k^2 = (x^2-y^2)^2 + (2xy)^2 and k^3 = (x(x^2-3y^2))^2 + (y(3x^2-y^2))^2, etc. - Carmine Suriano, Jul 13 2012

There are never more than 3 consecutive terms that differ by 1. Triples of consecutive terms that differ by 1 occur infinitely many times, for example, 2(k^2 + k)^2, (k^2 - 1)^2 + (k^2 + 2 k)^2, and (k^2 + k - 1)^2 + (k^2 + k + 1)^2 for any integer k > 1. - Ivan Neretin, Mar 16 2017 [Corrected by Jerzy R Borysowicz, Apr 14 2017]

Number of terms less than 10^k, k=1,2,3,...: 3, 34, 308, 2690, 23873, 215907, 1984228, ... - Muniru A Asiru, Feb 01 2018

The squares in this sequence are the squares of the so-called hypotenuse numbers A009003. - M. F. Hasler, Jun 20 2025

Examples

			25 = 3^2 + 4^2, therefore 25 is a term. Note that also 25^3 = 15625 = 44^2 + 117^2, therefore 15625 is a term.
		

References

• David A. Cox, "Primes of the Form x^2 + n y^2", Wiley, 1989.
• GCHQ, The GCHQ Puzzle Book, Penguin, 2016. See page 103.
• E. Grosswald, Representations of Integers as Sums of Squares. Springer-Verlag, NY, 1985, p. 75, Theorem 4, with Theorem 2, p. 15.
• G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1979, p. 219, th. 251, 252.
• Ian Stewart, "Game, Set and Math", Chapter 8, 'Close Encounters of the Fermat Kind', Penguin Books, Ed. 1991, pp. 107-124.

Links

• T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
• J. M. De Koninck and V. Ouellet, On the n-th element of a set of positive integers, Annales Univ. Sci. Budapest Sect. Comput. 44 (2015), 153-164. See 2. on p. 162.
• Étienne Fouvry, Claude Levesque, and Michel Waldschmidt, Representation of integers by cyclotomic binary forms, arXiv:1712.09019 [math.NT], 2017.
• Joshua Harrington, Lenny Jones, and Alicia Lamarche, Representing integers as the sum of two squares in the ring Z_n, arXiv:1404.0187 [math.NT], 2014.
• David Rabahy, Google Sheets
• G. Xiao, Two squares.
• Reinhard Zumkeller, Illustration for A084888 and A000404.
• Index entries for sequences related to sums of squares

Crossrefs

A001481 gives another version (allowing for zero squares).

Cf. A004431 (2 distinct squares), A063725 (number of representations), A024509 (numbers with multiplicity), A025284, A018825. Also A050803, A050801, A001105, A033431, A084888, A000578, A000290, A057961, A232499, A007692.

Cf. A003325 (analog for cubes), A003336 (analog for 4th powers).

Cf. A009003 (square roots of the squares in this sequence).

Column k=2 of A336725.

Cf. A355237, A355238.

Programs

GAP

P:=List([1..10^4],i->i^2);;
A000404 := Set(Flat(List(P, i->List(P, j -> i+j)))); # Muniru A Asiru, Feb 01 2018

Haskell

import Data.List (findIndices)
a000404 n = a000404_list !! (n-1)
a000404_list = findIndices (> 0) a025426_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 16 2011

Magma

lst:=[]; for n in [1..178] do f:=Factorization(n); if IsSquare(n) then for m in [1..#f] do d:=f[m]; if d[1] mod 4 eq 1 then Append(~lst, n); break; end if; end for; else t:=0; for m in [1..#f] do d:=f[m]; if d[1] mod 4 eq 3 and d[2] mod 2 eq 1 then t:=1; break; end if; end for; if t eq 0 then Append(~lst, n); end if; end if; end for; lst; // Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Feb 16 2017

Maple

nMax:=178: A:={}: for i to floor(sqrt(nMax)) do for j to floor(sqrt(nMax)) do if i^2+j^2 <= nMax then A := `union`(A, {i^2+j^2}) else  end if end do end do: A; # Emeric Deutsch, Jan 02 2017

Mathematica

nMax=1000; n2=Floor[Sqrt[nMax-1]]; Union[Flatten[Table[a^2+b^2, {a,n2}, {b,a,Floor[Sqrt[nMax-a^2]]}]]]
Select[Range@ 200, Length[PowersRepresentations[#, 2, 2] /. {0, } -> Nothing] > 0 &] (* _Michael De Vlieger, Mar 24 2016 *)
Module[{upto=200},Select[Union[Total/@Tuples[Range[Sqrt[upto]]^2,2]],#<= upto&]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 18 2021 *)

PARI

is_A000404(n)= for( i=1,#n=factor(n)~%4, n[1,i]==3 && n[2,i]%2 && return); n && ( vecmin(n[1,])==1 || (n[1,1]==2 && n[2,1]%2)) \\ M. F. Hasler, Feb 07 2009

PARI

list(lim)=my(v=List(),x2); lim\=1; for(x=1,sqrtint(lim-1), x2=x^2; for(y=1,sqrtint(lim-x2), listput(v,x2+y^2))); Set(v) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 30 2016

Python

from itertools import count, islice
from sympy import factorint
def A000404_gen(startvalue=1): # generator of terms >= startvalue
    for n in count(max(startvalue,1)):
        c = False
        for p in (f:=factorint(n)):
            if (q:= p & 3)==3 and f[p]&1:
                break
            elif q == 1:
                c = True
        else:
            if c or f.get(2,0)&1:
                yield n
A000404_list = list(islice(A000404_gen(),30)) # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 01 2022

Formula

Let k = 2^t * p_1^a_1 * p_2^a_2 * ... * p_r^a_r * q_1^b_1 * q_2^b_2 * ... * q_s^b_s with t >= 0, a_i >= 0 for i=1..r, where p_i == 1 (mod 4) for i=1..r and q_j == -1 (mod 4) for j=1..s. Then k is a term iff 1) b_j == 0 (mod 2) for j=1..s and 2) r > 0 or t == 1 (mod 2) (or both).

From Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 18 2022: (Start)

a(n) ~ k*n*sqrt(log n), where k = 1.3085... = 1/A064533.

There are B(x) = (x/sqrt(log x)) * (K + B2/log x + O(1/log^2 x)) terms of this sequence up to x, where K = A064533 and B2 = A227158. (End)

Extensions

Edited by Ralf Stephan, Nov 15 2004

Typo in formula corrected by M. F. Hasler, Feb 07 2009

Erroneous Mathematica program fixed by T. D. Noe, Aug 07 2009

PARI code fixed for versions > 2.5 by M. F. Hasler, Jan 01 2013