A342902 a(n) is the smallest number that is the sum of n positive cubes in two ways.

1729, 251, 219, 157, 158, 131, 132, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126

Offset: 2

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 03 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

This is r(n,3,2) in Alter's notation.

Examples

			a(2) = 1729 = 12^3 + 1^3 = 10^3 + 9^3 (the famous Hardy-Ramanujan number).
a(3) = 251 = 5^3 + 5^3 + 1^3 = 6^3 + 3^3 + 2^3.
		

Links

• R. Alter, Computations and generalizations on a remark of Ramanujan, pp. 182-196 of "Analytic Number Theory (Philadelphia, 1980)", ed. M. I. Knopp, Lect. Notes Math., Vol. 899, 1981. See Table 2, page 190.
• Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,-1).

Crossrefs

Cf. A001235, A011541, A230563, A342903, A343077, A343078, A343079, A343081, A343085.

Formula

a(n) = n+63 for n >= 9.