A343080 a(n) is the smallest number that is the sum of n positive squares in three ways.

325, 54, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90

Offset: 2

Author

Sean A. Irvine, Apr 04 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

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

Examples

			a(2) = 325 = 1^2 + 18^2 = 6^2 + 17^2 = 10^2 + 15^2.
a(3) = 54 = 1^2 + 2^2 + 7^2 = 2^2 + 5^2 + 5^2 = 3^2 + 3^2 + 6^2.
		

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 6, page 191.
• Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,-1).

Crossrefs

Cf. A342902, A343083, A343081, A343082, A343083, A343084.

Formula

a(n) = n + 24 for n >= 4.