A081422 Triangle read by rows in which row n consists of the first n+1 n-gonal numbers.

1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 6, 10, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 1, 5, 12, 22, 35, 51, 1, 6, 15, 28, 45, 66, 91, 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, 81, 112, 148, 1, 8, 21, 40, 65, 96, 133, 176, 225, 1, 9, 24, 46, 75, 111, 154, 204, 261, 325, 1, 10, 27, 52, 85, 126, 175, 232, 297, 370, 451

Offset: 0

Author

Paul Barry, Mar 21 2003

Keywords

• easy
• nonn
• tabl
• look

Examples

			The array starts
  1  1  3 10 ...
  1  2  6 16 ...
  1  3  9 22 ...
  1  4 12 28 ...
The triangle starts
  1;
  1,  1;
  1,  2,  3;
  1,  3,  6, 10;
  1,  4,  9, 16, 25;
  ...
		

Links

• T. D. Noe, Rows n = 0..100 of triangle, flattened
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polygonal Number

Crossrefs

Rows include A060354, A064808, A006000, A006003, A002411.

Diagonals include A001093, A053698, A069778, A000578, A002414, A081423, A081435, A081436, A081437, A081438, A081441.

Antidiagonals are composed of n-gonal numbers.

Programs

GAP

Flat(List([0..10], n-> List([1..n+1], k-> k*((n-2)*k-(n-4))/2 ))); # G. C. Greubel, Aug 14 2019

Magma

[[k*((n-2)*k-(n-4))/2: k in [1..n+1]]: n in [0..10]]; // G. C. Greubel, Oct 13 2018

Mathematica

Table[PolygonalNumber[n,i],{n,0,10},{i,n+1}]//Flatten (* Requires Mathematica version 10.4 or later *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 27 2016 *)

PARI

tabl(nn) = {for (n=0, nn, for (k=1, n+1, print1(k*((n-2)*k-(n-4))/2, ", ");); print(););} \\ Michel Marcus, Jun 22 2015

Sage

[[k*((n-2)*k -(n-4))/2 for k in (1..n+1)] for n in (0..10)] # G. C. Greubel, Aug 14 2019

Formula

Array of coefficients of x in the expansions of T(k, x) = (1 + k*x -(k-2)*x^2)/(1-x)^4, k > -4.

T(n, k) = k*((n-2)*k -(n-4))/2 (see MathWorld link). - Michel Marcus, Jun 22 2015