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A001481 Numbers that are the sum of 2 squares.

0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 29, 32, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 45, 49, 50, 52, 53, 58, 61, 64, 65, 68, 72, 73, 74, 80, 81, 82, 85, 89, 90, 97, 98, 100, 101, 104, 106, 109, 113, 116, 117, 121, 122, 125, 128, 130, 136, 137, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 153, 157, 160

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

Numbers n such that n = x^2 + y^2 has a solution in nonnegative integers x, y.
Closed under multiplication. - David W. Wilson, Dec 20 2004
Also, numbers whose cubes are the sum of 2 squares. - Artur Jasinski, Nov 21 2006 (Cf. A125110.)
Terms are the squares of smallest radii of circles covering (on a square grid) a number of points equal to the terms of A057961. - Philippe Lallouet (philip.lallouet(AT)wanadoo.fr), Apr 16 2007. [Comment corrected by T. D. Noe, Mar 28 2008]
Numbers with more 4k+1 divisors than 4k+3 divisors. If a(n) is a member of this sequence, then so too is any power of a(n). - Ant King, Oct 05 2010
A000161(a(n)) > 0; A070176(a(n)) = 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 04 2012, Aug 16 2011
Numbers that are the norms of Gaussian integers. This sequence has unique factorization; the primitive elements are A055025. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Nov 25 2011
These are numbers n such that all of n's odd prime factors congruent to 3 modulo 4 occur to an even exponent (Fermat's two-squares theorem). - Jean-Christophe Hervé, May 01 2013
Let's say that an integer n divides a lattice if there exists a sublattice of index n. Example: 2, 4, 5 divide the square lattice. The present sequence without 0 is the sequence of divisors of the square lattice. Say that n is a "prime divisor" if the index-n sublattice is not contained in any other sublattice except the original lattice itself. Then A055025 (norms of Gaussian primes) gives the "prime divisors" of the square lattice. - Jean-Christophe Hervé, May 01 2013
For any i,j > 0 a(i)*a(j) is a member of this sequence, since (a^2 + b^2)*(c^2 + d^2) = (a*c + b*d)^2 + (a*d - b*c)^2. - Boris Putievskiy, May 05 2013
The sequence is closed under multiplication. Primitive elements are in A055025. The sequence can be split into 3 multiplicatively closed subsequences: {0}, A004431 and A125853. - Jean-Christophe Hervé, Nov 17 2013
Generalizing Jasinski's comment, same as numbers whose odd powers are the sum of 2 squares, by Fermat's two-squares theorem. - Jonathan Sondow, Jan 24 2014
By the 4 squares theorem, every nonnegative integer can be expressed as the sum of two elements of this sequence. - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Mar 28 2015
There are never more than 3 consecutive terms. Runs of 3 terms start at 0, 8, 16, 72, ... (A082982). - Ivan Neretin, Nov 09 2015
Conjecture: barring the 0+2, 0+4, 0+8, 0+16, ... sequence, the sum of 2 distinct terms in this sequence is never a power of 2. - J. Lowell, Jan 14 2022
All the areas of squares whose vertices have integer coordinates. - Neeme Vaino, Jun 14 2023
Numbers represented by the definite binary quadratic forms x^2 + 2nxy + (n^2+1)y^2 for any integer n. This sequence contains the even powers of any integer. An odd power of a number appears only if the number itself belongs to the sequence. The equation given in the comment by Boris Putievskiy 2013 is Brahmagupta's identity with n = 1. It proves that any set of numbers of the form a^2 + nb^2 is closed under multiplication. - Klaus Purath, Sep 06 2023

J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups", Springer-Verlag, p. 106.
David A. Cox, "Primes of the Form x^2 + n y^2", Wiley, 1989.
L. Euler, (E388) Vollständige Anleitung zur Algebra, Zweiter Theil, reprinted in: Opera Omnia. Teubner, Leipzig, 1911, Series (1), Vol. 1, p. 417.
S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 98-104.
G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan, pp. 60-63.
P. Moree and J. Cazaran, On a claim of Ramanujan in his first letter to Hardy, Expos. Math. 17 (1999), pp. 289-312.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Michael Baake, Uwe Grimm, Dieter Joseph and Przemyslaw Repetowicz, Averaged shelling for quasicrystals, arXiv:math/9907156 [math.MG], 1999.
Chris Bispels, Matthew Cohen, Joshua Harrington, Joshua Lowrance, Kaelyn Pontes, Leif Schaumann, and Tony W. H. Wong, A further investigation on covering systems with odd moduli, arXiv:2507.16135 [math.NT], 2025. See p. 3.
Henry Bottomley, Illustration of initial terms
Richard T. Bumby, Sums of four squares, in Number theory (New York, 1991-1995), 1-8, Springer, New York, 1996.
John Butcher, Quadratic residues and sums of two squares
John Butcher, Sums of two squares revisited
Leonhard Euler, Vollständige Anleitung zur Algebra, Zweiter Teil; see also Deutsches Textarchiv
Steven R. Finch, Landau-Ramanujan Constant [broken link]
Steven R. Finch, Landau-Ramanujan Constant [From the Wayback Machine]
Steven R. Finch, On a Generalized Fermat-Wiles Equation [broken link]
Steven R. Finch, On a Generalized Fermat-Wiles Equation [From the Wayback Machine]
J. W. L. Glaisher, On the function which denotes the difference between the number of (4m+1)-divisors and the number of (4m+3)-divisors of a number, Proc. London Math. Soc., 15 (1884), 104-122. [Annotated scanned copy of pages 104-107 only]
Leonor Godinho, Nicholas Lindsay, and Silvia Sabatini, On a symplectic generalization of a Hirzebruch problem, arXiv:2403.00949 [math.SG], 2024. See p. 17.
Darij Grinberg, UMN Spring 2019 Math 4281 notes, University of Minnesota, College of Science & Engineering, 2019. [Wayback Machine copy]
Shuo Li, The characteristic sequence of the integers that are the sum of two squares is not morphic, arXiv:2404.08822 [math.NT], 2024.
Thomas Nickson and Igor Potapov, Broadcasting Automata and Patterns on Z^2, arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0573 [cs.FL], 2014.
Michael Penn, Sums of Squares, Youtube playlist, 2019, 2020.
Peter Shiu, Counting Sums of Two Squares: The Meissel-Lehmer Method, Mathematics of Computation 47 (1986), 351-360.
N. J. A. Sloane et al., Binary Quadratic Forms and OEIS (Index to related sequences, programs, references)
William A. Stein, Quadratic Forms:Sums of Two Squares
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Square Number
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Generalized Fermat Equation
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Landau-Ramanujan Constant
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Gaussian Integer
A. van Wijngaarden, A table of partitions into two squares with an application to rational triangles, Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series A, 53 (1950), 869-875.
Gang Xiao, Two squares
Index entries for sequences related to sums of squares
Index entries for "core" sequences

Disjoint union of A000290 and A000415.
Complement of A022544.
Cf. A004018, A000161, A002654, A064533, A055025, A002828, A000378, A025284-A025320, A125110, A118882, A125022.
A000404 gives another version. Subsequence of A091072, supersequence of A046711.
Cf. A057961, A232499, A077773, A363763.
Column k=2 of A336820.

a001481 n = a001481_list !! (n-1)
a001481_list = [x | x <- [0..], a000161 x > 0]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 14 2012, Aug 16 2011

[n: n in [0..160] | NormEquation(1, n) eq true]; // Arkadiusz Wesolowski, May 11 2016

readlib(issqr): for n from 0 to 160 do for k from 0 to floor(sqrt(n)) do if issqr(n-k^2) then printf(`%d,`,n); break fi: od: od:

upTo = 160; With[{max = Ceiling[Sqrt[upTo]]}, Select[Union[Total /@ (Tuples[Range[0, max], {2}]^2)], # <= upTo &]]  (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 22 2011 *)
Select[Range[0, 160], SquaresR[2, #] != 0 &] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jan 04 2013 *)

isA001481(n)=local(x,r);x=0;r=0;while(x<=sqrt(n) && r==0,if(issquare(n-x^2),r=1);x++);r \\ Michael B. Porter, Oct 31 2009

is(n)=my(f=factor(n));for(i=1,#f[,1],if(f[i,2]%2 && f[i,1]%4==3, return(0))); 1 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Aug 24 2012

B=bnfinit('z^2+1,1);
is(n)=#bnfisintnorm(B,n) \\ Ralf Stephan, Oct 18 2013, edited by M. F. Hasler, Nov 21 2017

list(lim)=my(v=List(),t); for(m=0,sqrtint(lim\=1), t=m^2; for(n=0, min(sqrtint(lim-t),m), listput(v,t+n^2))); Set(v) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 05 2016

is_A001481(n)=!for(i=2-bittest(n,0),#n=factor(n)~, bittest(n[1,i],1)&&bittest(n[2,i],0)&&return) \\ M. F. Hasler, Nov 20 2017

from itertools import count, islice
from sympy import factorint
def A001481_gen(): # generator of terms
    return filter(lambda n:(lambda m:all(d & 3 != 3 or m[d] & 1 == 0 for d in m))(factorint(n)),count(0))
A001481_list = list(islice(A001481_gen(),30)) # Chai Wah Wu, Jun 27 2022

n = square * 2^{0 or 1} * {product of distinct primes == 1 (mod 4)}.
The number of integers less than N that are sums of two squares is asymptotic to constant*N/sqrt(log(N)), hence lim_{n->infinity} a(n)/n = infinity.
Nonzero terms in expansion of Dirichlet series Product_p (1 - (Kronecker(m, p) + 1)*p^(-s) + Kronecker(m, p)*p^(-2s))^(-1) for m = -1.
a(n) ~ k*n*sqrt(log n), where k = 1.3085... = 1/A064533. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 16 2012
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. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 18 2022

Deleted an incorrect comment. - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 03 2023

A000404 Numbers that are the sum of 2 nonzero squares.

Original entry on oeis.org

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

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

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

			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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 *)

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

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

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

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)

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

A004018 Theta series of square lattice (or number of ways of writing n as a sum of 2 squares). Often denoted by r(n) or r_2(n).

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 4, 4, 0, 4, 8, 0, 0, 4, 4, 8, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 4, 8, 4, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 12, 8, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 4, 0, 8, 0, 4, 8, 0, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 4, 12, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 4, 16, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 4, 8, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8, 4, 8, 0, 0, 16, 0, 0, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8, 4, 0, 12, 8

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Number of points in square lattice on the circle of radius sqrt(n). Equivalently, number of Gaussian integers of norm n (cf. Conway-Sloane, p. 106).
Let b(n)=A004403(n), then Sum_{k=1..n} a(k)*b(n-k) = 1. - John W. Layman
Theta series of D_2 lattice.
Number 6 of the 74 eta-quotients listed in Table I of Martin (1996).
Ramanujan theta functions: f(q) (see A121373), phi(q) (A000122), psi(q) (A010054), chi(q) (A000700).
The zeros in this sequence correspond to those integers with an equal number of 4k+1 and 4k+3 divisors, or equivalently to those that have at least one 4k+3 prime factor with an odd exponent (A022544). - Ant King, Mar 12 2013
If A(q) = 1 + 4*q + 4*q^2 + 4*q^4 + 8*q^5 + ... denotes the o.g.f. of this sequence then the function F(q) := 1/4*(A(q^2) - A(q^4)) = ( Sum_{n >= 0} q^(2*n+1)^2 )^2 is the o.g.f. for counting the ways a positive integer n can be written as the sum of two positive odd squares. - Peter Bala, Dec 13 2013
Expansion coefficients of (2/Pi)*K, with the real quarter period K of elliptic functions, as series of the Jacobi nome q, due to (2/Pi)*K = theta_3(0,q)^2. See, e.g., Whittaker-Watson, p. 486. - Wolfdieter Lang, Jul 15 2016
Sum_{k=0..n} a(n) = A057655(n). Robert G. Wilson v, Dec 22 2016
Limit_{n->oo} (a(n)/n - Pi*log(n)) = A062089: Sierpinski's constant. - Robert G. Wilson v, Dec 22 2016
The mean value of a(n) is Pi, see A057655 for more details. - M. F. Hasler, Mar 20 2017

			G.f. = 1 + 4*q + 4*q^2 + 4*q^4 + 8*q^5 + 4*q^8 + 4*q^9 + 8*q^10 + 8*q^13 + 4*q^16 + 8*q^17 + 4*q^18 + 8*q^20 + 12*q^25 + 8*q^26 + ... . - _John Cannon_, Dec 30 2006

L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 162, #16 (7), r(n).
J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups", Springer-Verlag, p. 106.
N. J. Fine, Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications, Amer. Math. Soc., 1988; p. 78, Eq. (32.23).
E. Grosswald, Representations of Integers as Sums of Squares. Springer-Verlag, NY, 1985, p. 15, p. 32, Lemma 2 (with the proof), p. 116, (9.10) first formula.
G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan: twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work, Cambridge, University Press, 1940, p. 133.
G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers. 3rd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1954, p. 240, r(n).
W. König and J. Sprekels, Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897), Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden, 2016, p. 186-187 and p. 280-281.
C. D. Olds, A. Lax and G. P. Davidoff, The Geometry of Numbers, Math. Assoc. Amer., 2000, p. 51.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pages 244-245.
E. T. Whittaker and G. N. Watson, A Course of Modern Analysis, fourth edition, reprinted, 1958, Cambridge at the University Press.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
G. E. Andrews, R. Lewis and Z.-G. Liu, An identity relating a theta series to a sum of Lambert series, Bull. London Math. Soc., 33 (2001), 25-31.
H. H. Chan and C. Krattenthaler, Recent progress in the study of representations of integers as sums of squares, arXiv:math/0407061 [math.NT], 2004.
S. Cooper and M. Hirschhorn, A combinatorial proof of a result from number theory, Integers 4 (2004), #A09.
Michael Gilleland, Some Self-Similar Integer Sequences
J. W. L. Glaisher, On the representations of a number as the sum of two, four, six, eight, ten, and twelve squares, Quart. J. Math. 38 (1907), 1-62. (This sequence is called rho, see page 6)
M. D. Hirschhorn, Jacobi's Two-Square Theorem and Related Identities
M. D. Hirschhorn, Arithmetic Consequences of Jacobi's Two-Squares Theorem
M. D. Hirschhorn, The number of representations of a number by various forms, Discrete Mathematics 298 (2005), 205-211.
Jacobi-Legendre letters, Correspondance mathématique entre Legendre et Jacobi, J. Reine Angew. Math. 80 (1875) 205-279, letter of September 9, 1828, p. 240-243, formula for 2K/Pi on p. 242.
Christian Kassel and Christophe Reutenauer, The zeta function of the Hilbert scheme of n points on a two-dimensional torus, arXiv:1505.07229v3 [math.AG], 2015. [Note that a later version of this paper has a different title and different contents, and the number-theoretical part of the paper was moved to the publication which is next in this list.]
Christian Kassel and Christophe Reutenauer, Complete determination of the zeta function of the Hilbert scheme of n points on a two-dimensional torus, arXiv:1610.07793 [math.NT], 2016.
Christian Kassel, Christophe Reutenauer, The Fourier expansion of eta(z)eta(2z)eta(3z)/eta(6z), arXiv:1603.06357 [math.NT], 2016.
M. Kontsevich and D. Zagier, Periods, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques 2001 IHES/M/01/22. Published in B. Engquist and W. Schmid, editors, Mathematics Unlimited - 2001 and Beyond, 2 vols., Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 771-808, section 2.3. Example 3.
Y. Martin, Multiplicative eta-quotients, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), no. 12, 4825-4856, see page 4852 Table I.
G. Nebe and N. J. A. Sloane, Home page for this lattice
F. Richman, Counting Gaussian integers in a disk
Grant Sanderson, Pi hiding in prime regularities, 3Blue1Brown video (2017).
N. J. A. Sloane et al., Binary Quadratic Forms and OEIS (Index to related sequences, programs, references)
Michael Somos, Index to Yves Martin's list of 74 multiplicative eta-quotients and their A-numbers
Michael Somos, Introduction to Ramanujan theta functions
G. Villemin, Sommes de 2 carrés
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Barnes-Wall Lattice
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Moebius Transform
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Ramanujan Theta Functions
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Sum of Squares Function
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Theta Series
Zach Wissner-Gross a.k.a. The Riddler, Riddler Express: Can You Climb Your Way To Victory?, FiveThirtyEight, Sep 24 2021.
G. Xiao, Two squares
Index entries for sequences related to sums of squares
Index entries for sequences mentioned by Glaisher
Index entries for "core" sequences

Row d=2 of A122141 and of A319574, 2nd column of A286815.
Partial sums - 1 give A014198.
A071385 gives records; A071383 gives where records occur.
Cf. A001481, A004020, A005883, A057655 (partial sums), A057961, A057962, A002654,
A104271, A105673.

# JacobiTheta3 is defined in A000122.
A004018List(len) = JacobiTheta3(len, 2)
A004018List(102) |> println # Peter Luschny, Mar 12 2018

Basis( ModularForms( Gamma1(4), 1), 100) [1]; /* Michael Somos, Jun 10 2014 */

(sum(x^(m^2),m=-10..10))^2;
# Alternative:
A004018list := proc(len) series(JacobiTheta3(0, x)^2, x, len+1);
seq(coeff(%, x, j), j=0..len-1) end:
t1 := A004018list(102);
r2 := n -> t1[n+1]; # Peter Luschny, Oct 02 2018

SquaresR[2,Range[0,110]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Oct 10 2011 *)
a[ n_] := SquaresR[ 2, n]; (* Michael Somos, Nov 15 2011 *)
a[ n_] := SeriesCoefficient[ EllipticTheta[ 3, 0, q]^2, {q, 0, n}]; (* Michael Somos, Nov 15 2011 *)
a[ n_] := With[{m = InverseEllipticNomeQ @ q}, SeriesCoefficient[ EllipticK[ m] / (Pi/2), {q, 0, n}]]; (* Michael Somos, Jun 10 2014 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 1, Boole[n == 0], 4 Sum[ KroneckerSymbol[-4, d], {d, Divisors@n}]]; (* or *) a[ n_] := SeriesCoefficient[ QPochhammer[ q^2]^10/(QPochhammer[ q] QPochhammer[ q^4])^4, {q, 0, n}]; (* Michael Somos, May 17 2015 *)

{a(n) = polcoeff( 1 + 4 * sum( k=1, n, x^k / (1 + x^(2*k)), x * O(x^n)), n)}; /* Michael Somos, Mar 14 2003 */

{a(n) = if( n<1, n==0, 4 * sumdiv( n, d, (d%4==1) - (d%4==3)))}; /* Michael Somos, Jul 19 2004 */

{a(n) = if( n<1, n==0, 2 * qfrep([ 1, 0; 0, 1], n)[n])}; /* Michael Somos, May 13 2005 */

a(n)=if(n==0,return(1)); my(f=factor(n)); 4*prod(i=1,#f~, if(f[i,1]%4==1, f[i,2]+1, if(f[i,2]%2 && f[i,1]>2, 0, 1))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Sep 02 2015

from sympy import factorint
def a(n):
    if n == 0: return 1
    an = 4
    for pi, ei in factorint(n).items():
       if pi%4 == 1: an *= ei+1
       elif pi%4 == 3 and ei%2: return 0
    return an
print([a(n) for n in range(102)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Sep 24 2021

from math import prod
from sympy import factorint
def A004018(n): return prod(1 if p==2 else (e+1 if p&3==1 else (e+1)&1) for p, e in factorint(n).items())<<2 if n else 1 # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 07 2022, corrected Jun 21 2024.

Q = DiagonalQuadraticForm(ZZ, [1]*2)
Q.representation_number_list(102) # Peter Luschny, Jun 20 2014

Expansion of theta_3(q)^2 = (Sum_{n=-oo..+oo} q^(n^2))^2 = Product_{m>=1} (1-q^(2*m))^2 * (1+q^(2*m-1))^4; convolution square of A000122.
Factor n as n = p1^a1 * p2^a2 * ... * q1^b1 * q2^b2 * ... * 2^c, where the p's are primes == 1 (mod 4) and the q's are primes == 3 (mod 4). Then a(n) = 0 if any b is odd, otherwise a(n) = 4*(1 + a1)*(1 + a2)*...
G.f. = s(2)^10/(s(1)^4*s(4)^4), where s(k) := subs(q=q^k, eta(q)) and eta(q) is Dedekind's function, cf. A010815. [Fine]
a(n) = 4*A002654(n), n > 0.
Expansion of eta(q^2)^10 / (eta(q) * eta(q^4))^4 in powers of q. - Michael Somos, Jul 19 2004
Expansion of ( phi(q)^2 + phi(-q)^2 ) / 2 in powers of q^2 where phi() is a Ramanujan theta function.
G.f. A(x) satisfies 0 = f(A(x), A(x^2), A(x^4)) where f(u, v, w) = (u - v)^2 - (v - w) * 4 * w. - Michael Somos, Jul 19 2004
Euler transform of period 4 sequence [4, -6, 4, -2, ...]. - Michael Somos, Jul 19 2004
Moebius transform is period 4 sequence [4, 0, -4, 0, ...]. - Michael Somos, Sep 17 2007
G.f. is a period 1 Fourier series which satisfies f(-1 / (4 t)) = 2 (t/i) f(t) where q = exp(2 Pi i t).
The constant sqrt(Pi)/Gamma(3/4)^2 produces the first 324 terms of the sequence when expanded in base exp(Pi), 450 digits of the constant are necessary. - Simon Plouffe, Mar 03 2011
a(n) = A004531(4*n). a(n) = 2*A105673(n), if n>0.
Let s = 16*q*(E1*E4^2/E2^3)^8 where Ek = Product_{n>=1} (1-q^(k*n)) (s=k^2 where k is elliptic k), then the g.f. is hypergeom([+1/2, +1/2], [+1], s) (expansion of 2/Pi*ellipticK(k) in powers of q). - Joerg Arndt, Aug 15 2011
Dirichlet g.f. Sum_{n>=1} a(n)/n^s = 4*zeta(s)*L_(-4)(s), where L is the D.g.f. of the (shifted) A056594. [Raman. J. 7 (2003) 95-127]. - R. J. Mathar, Jul 02 2012
a(n) = floor(1/(n+1)) + 4*floor(cos(Pi*sqrt(n))^2) - 4*floor(cos(Pi*sqrt(n/2))^2) + 8*Sum_{i=1..floor(n/2)} floor(cos(Pi*sqrt(i))^2)*floor(cos(Pi*sqrt(n-i))^2). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jan 09 2013
From Wolfdieter Lang, Aug 01 2016: (Start)
A Jacobi identity: theta_3(0, q)^2 = 1 + 4*Sum_{r>=0} (-1)^r*q^(2*r+1)/(1 - q^(2*r+1)). See, e.g., the Grosswald reference (p. 15, p. 116, but p. 32, Lemma 2 with the proof, has the typo r >= 1 instead of r >= 0 in the sum, also in the proof). See the link with the Jacobi-Legendre letter.
Identity used by Weierstraß (see the König-Sprekels book, p. 187, eq. (5.12) and p. 281, with references, but there F(x) from (5.11) on p. 186 should start with nu =1 not 0): theta_3(0, q)^2 = 1 + 4*Sum_{n>=1} q^n/(1 + q^(2*n)). Proof: similar to the one of the preceding Jacobi identity. (End)
a(n) = (4/n)*Sum_{k=1..n} A186690(k)*a(n-k), a(0) = 1. - Seiichi Manyama, May 27 2017
G.f.: Theta_3(q)^2 = hypergeometric([1/2, 1/2],[1],lambda(q)), with lambda(q) = Sum_{j>=1} A115977(j)*q^j. See the Kontsevich and Zagier link, with Theta -> Theta_3, z -> 2*z and q -> q^2. - Wolfdieter Lang, May 27 2018

A057655 The circle problem: number of points (x,y) in square lattice with x^2 + y^2 <= n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 5, 9, 9, 13, 21, 21, 21, 25, 29, 37, 37, 37, 45, 45, 45, 49, 57, 61, 61, 69, 69, 69, 69, 69, 81, 89, 89, 89, 97, 97, 97, 101, 101, 109, 109, 113, 121, 121, 121, 129, 137, 137, 137, 137, 145, 145, 145, 145, 149, 161, 161, 169, 177, 177, 177

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 15 2000

			a(0) = 1 (counting origin).
a(1) = 5 since 4 points lie on the circle of radius sqrt(1) + origin.
a(2) = 9 since 4 lattice points lie on the circle w/radius = sqrt(2) (along diagonals) + 4 points inside the circle + origin. - _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Jan 10 2013

C. Alsina and R. B. Nelsen, Charming Proofs: A Journey Into Elegant Mathematics, Math. Assoc. Amer., 2010, p. 42.
J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups", Springer-Verlag, p. 106.
F. Fricker, Einfuehrung in die Gitterpunktlehre, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1982.
P. de la Harpe, Topics in Geometric Group Theory, Univ. Chicago Press, 2000, p. 5.
E. Kraetzel, Lattice Points, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1988.
C. D. Olds, A. Lax and G. P. Davidoff, The Geometry of Numbers, Math. Assoc. Amer., 2000, p. 51.
W. Sierpiński, Elementary Theory of Numbers, Elsevier, North-Holland, 1988.
James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pages 245-246.

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Pierre de la Harpe, On the prehistory of growth of groups, arXiv:2106.02499 [math.GR], 2021.
F. Richman, Counting Gaussian integers in a disk
W. Sierpiński, Elementary Theory of Numbers, Warszawa 1964.

Partial sums of A004018. Cf. A014198, A057656, A057961, A057962, A122510. For another version see A000328.

Cf. A038589 (for hexagonal lattice).

a057655 n = length [(x,y) | x <- [-n..n], y <- [-n..n], x^2 + y^2 <= n]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 23 2012

N:= 1000: # to get a(0) to a(N)
R:= Array(0..N):
for a from 0 to floor(sqrt(N)) do
  for b from 0 to floor(sqrt(N-a^2)) do
    r:= a^2 + b^2;
    R[r]:= R[r] + (2 - charfcn[0](a))*(2 - charfcn[0](b));
  od
od:
convert(map(round,Statistics:-CumulativeSum(R)),list); # Robert Israel, Sep 29 2014

f[n_] := 1 + 4Sum[ Floor@ Sqrt[n - k^2], {k, 0, Sqrt[n]}]; Table[ f[n], {n, 0, 60}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jun 16 2006 *)
Accumulate[ SquaresR[2, Range[0, 55]]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 24 2012 *)
CoefficientList[Series[EllipticTheta[3,0,x]^2/(1-x), {x, 0, 100}], x] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 29 2014 after Robert Israel *)

a(n)=sum(x=-n,n,sum(y=-n,n,if((sign(x^2+y^2-n)+1)*sign(x^2+y^2-n),0,1)))

a(n)=1+4*sum(k=0,sqrtint(n), sqrtint(n-k^2) ); /* Benoit Cloitre, Oct 08 2012 */

from math import isqrt
def A057655(n): return 1+(sum(isqrt(n-k**2) for k in range(isqrt(n)+1))<<2) # Chai Wah Wu, Jul 31 2023

a(n) = 1 + 4*{ [n/1] - [n/3] + [n/5] - [n/7] + ... }. - Gauss
a(n) = 1 + 4*Sum_{ k = 0 .. [sqrt(n)] } [ sqrt(n-k^2) ]. - Liouville (?)
a(n) - Pi*n = O(sqrt(n)) (Gauss). a(n) - Pi*n = O(n^c), c = 23/73 + epsilon ~ 0.3151 (Huxley). If a(n) - Pi*n = O(n^c) then c > 1/4 (Landau, Hardy). It is conjectured that a(n) - Pi*n = O(n^(1/4 + epsilon)) for all epsilon > 0.
a(n) = A014198(n) + 1.
a(n) = A122510(2,n). - R. J. Mathar, Apr 21 2010
a(n) = 1 + sum((floor(1/(k+1)) + 4 * floor(cos(Pi * sqrt(k))^2) - 4 * floor(cos(Pi * sqrt(k/2))^2) + 8 * sum((floor(cos(Pi * sqrt(i))^2) * floor(cos(Pi * sqrt(k-i))^2)), i = 1..floor(k/2))), k = 1..n). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jan 10 2013
G.f.: theta_3(0,x)^2/(1-x) where theta_3 is a Jacobi theta function. - Robert Israel, Sep 29 2014
a(n^2) = A000328(n). - R. J. Mathar, Aug 03 2025

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