A344083 a(n) = f(x)+f(y)+f(z), where (x,y,h) is the n-th Pythagorean triple listed in (A046083, A046084, A009000), and f(m)=A176775(m) is the index of m as k-gonal number for the smallest possible k.

6, 9, 7, 11, 9, 9, 12, 10, 9, 10, 9, 11, 18, 10, 16, 9, 9, 20, 9, 7, 18, 9, 18, 15, 11, 14, 7, 12, 10, 13, 12, 7, 12, 15, 12, 17, 14, 18, 13, 9, 13, 14, 15, 10, 9, 7, 9, 21, 12, 10, 15, 23, 7, 9, 12, 20, 9, 18, 17, 28, 14, 16, 7, 21, 18, 24, 21, 21, 20, 16, 25

Offset: 1

Author

Michel Marcus, May 09 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

6 is the minimum possible value, and A176775(3,4,5) gives this minimum.

Conjecture: there are no other Pythagorean triples that give this minimum. In other words, it is the only triple with 3 A090467 terms.

Links

• Michel Marcus, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..12471 (hypotenuses <= 10000).

Crossrefs

Cf. A176774, A176775, A342491.

Cf. A090466, A090467.

Programs

PARI

tp(n) = my(k=3); while( !ispolygonal(n,k), k++); k; \\ A176774
itp(n) = my(m=tp(n)); (m-4+sqrtint((m-4)^2+8*(m-2)*n)) / (2*m-4); \\ A176775
f(v) = vecsum(apply(itp, v));
list(lim) = {my(v=List(), m2, s2, h2, h); for(middle=4, lim-1, m2=middle^2; for(small=1, middle, s2=small^2; if(issquare(h2=m2+s2, &h), if(h>lim, break); listput(v, [h, middle, small]);););); v = vecsort(Vec(v)); apply(f, v);}