A255351 Values of b = max {a,b,c,d} for solutions to a^4 + b^4 = c^4 + d^4, a < c < d < b, ordered by size of b.

158, 239, 292, 316, 474, 478, 502, 542, 584, 631, 632, 717, 790, 876, 948, 956, 1004, 1084, 1106, 1168, 1195, 1203, 1262, 1264, 1381, 1422, 1434, 1460, 1506, 1580, 1626, 1673, 1738, 1752, 1893, 1896, 1912

Offset: 1

Author

M. F. Hasler, Feb 21 2015

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

See A018786 for the values of a^4 + b^4 = c^4 + d^4, and A255352 for the list of the full quadruples (a,b,c,d). See there for further comments, motivation and references.

The values of b listed here allow one to reproduce the full solutions (a,b,c,d) with not too much effort, cf. the inner loops of the PARI code.

Examples

			The quadruples [a,b,c,d] are, listed in order of increasing b = max{a,b,c,d}:
[59, 158, 133, 134], [7, 239, 157, 227], [193, 292, 256, 257], [118, 316, 266, 268], [177, 474, 399, 402], [14, 478, 314, 454], [271, 502, 298, 497], [103, 542, 359, 514], [386, 584, 512, 514], [222, 631, 503, 558], [236, 632, 532, 536], [21, 717, 471, 681], [295, 790, 665, 670], [579, 876, 768, 771], [354, 948, 798, 804], [28, 956, 628, 908], ...
		

Links

• Mia Muessig, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..30000
• Mia Muessig, Julia code for finding general taxicab numbers

Crossrefs

Cf. A018786, A255352.

Programs

PARI

{n=4;for(b=1,1999,for(a=1,b,t=a^n+b^n;for(c=a+1,sqrtn(t\2,n),ispower(t-c^n,n)||next;print1(b",");next(3))))}