A330909 Floor of area of triangle whose sides are consecutive Ulam numbers (A002858).
0, 2, 5, 11, 23, 43, 70, 100, 141, 227, 361, 478, 670, 826, 1044, 1183, 1405, 1668, 1960, 2272, 2545, 2889, 3351, 3819, 4267, 4523, 4955, 5669, 6558, 7474, 8203, 8914, 9633, 10813, 12245, 13611, 13972, 14587, 15473, 16798, 17987, 19298, 20229, 21909, 23166
Offset: 1
Keywords
Examples
a(2) = 2 because the triangle with sides (2, 3, 4) has area 3*sqrt(15)/4 = 2.9047...
Links
- Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
- Wikipedia, Ulam number.
Programs
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Mathematica
lst1 = ReadList["https://oeis.org/A002858/b002858.txt", {Number,Number}]; lst={}; Do[{a, b, c}={lst1[[n]][[2]], lst1[[n+1]][[2]], lst1[[n+2]][[2]]}; s = (a+b+c)/2; A=Sqrt[s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)]; AppendTo[lst, Floor@A], {n, 1, 50}]; lst
Formula
Given a triangle with sides a, b and c, the area A = sqrt(s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)) where s = (a+b+c)/2.
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