A257274 Numbers whose square can be written as sum of at least 3 consecutive triangular numbers (A000217).

8, 10, 19, 26, 44, 58, 79, 84, 91, 105, 111, 121, 135, 140, 154, 172, 184, 188, 195, 203, 208, 212, 217, 222, 230, 240, 246, 265, 276, 286, 292, 316, 322, 329, 338, 364, 390, 426, 429, 462, 490, 498, 506, 548, 550, 605, 704, 714, 715, 763, 770, 780, 782, 807

Offset: 1

Author

M. F. Hasler, May 02 2015

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Any square can trivially be written as sum of two consecutive triangular numbers T = A000217, since T(n-1) + T(n) = n(n-1)/2 + n(n+1)/2 = n*2n/2 = n^2. But it seems nontrivial to determine the squares that can be written as sum of more than 2 consecutive triangular numbers.

Some of these have two different decompositions of this form, e.g., 286^2 = T(13)+...+T(78) = T(75)+...+T(96), 826^2 = T(13)+...+T(159) = T(43)+...+T(160). What is the sequence of these numbers?

The terms > 2 of A129445, numbers k > 0 such that k^2 is a centered triangular number, form a subsequence: they correspond to k^2 = T(n-2) + T(n-1) + T(n), with n in sequence A129444: numbers n such that centered triangular number A005448(n) = 3n(n-1)/2 + 1 is a perfect square.

Terms > 2 of sequence A075870 also form a subsequence, namely the numbers whose square is the sum of four triangular numbers T(n-3)+...+T(n), with n given by twice the terms > 1 of A046090 or A182435.

Examples

			8^2 = T(5)+T(6)+T(7), 10^2 = T(5)+T(6)+T(7)+T(8), 19^2 = T(14)+T(15)+T(16), 26^2 = T(3)+...+T(15), 44^2 = T(13)+...+T(23), ...
		

Links

• Chai Wah Wu, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Programs

PARI

{a=[];(S(n)=binomial(n+2,3)); for(n=1,999,for(k=1,n-3,issquare(S(n)-S(k))&&a=concat(a,sqrtint(S(n)-S(k))))); Set(a)[1..50]}

Extensions

a(14), a(43)-a(54) from Chai Wah Wu, Jan 20 2016