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A350886 Let X,Y,Z be positive integer solutions to X^2 = Sum_{j=0..Y-1} (1+Z*j)^2, where solutions for Y or Z < 1 are excluded. This sequence lists the sorted values for X.

54, 70, 1618, 2344, 2541, 27597, 48486, 73795, 184162, 320739, 648009, 766669, 990983, 1452962, 3816551, 4456264, 6287116, 23251921, 37396339, 43540374, 51136014, 53005618, 63668661, 147115419, 205943541, 236317895, 253970684, 275914803, 386480829, 629467300

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Thomas Scheuerle, Feb 25 2022

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A generalization of the cannonball problem for pyramids with a slope of 1/A350888(n). In the cannonball problem, a square pyramid of stacked balls shall contain a square number of balls in total. Each layer of such a pyramid consists of a square number of balls, in the classic case the top layer has one ball, the layers below contain adjacent square numbers of balls. For this sequence we ignore the fact that if adjacent layers do not alternate between odd and even squares the stacking will become difficult at least for sphere-like objects. We start in the top layer always with one ball, but will skip a constant count of square numbers between each layer. This results in pyramids which slope <= 1.

a(n) may be interpreted as the length of a Pythagorean vector with gcd = 1 (over all coordinates) and no duplicate coordinate values. Such vectors may have applications in the theory of lattices.

			a(1) = 54 and A350887(1) = 4, A350888(1) = 14:
   54^2 = 1^2 + 15^2 + 29^2 + 43^2.
a(2) = 70 and  A350887(2) = 24, A350888(2) = 1:
   70^2 = 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + ... + 23^2 + 24^2. This is the classic solution for the cannonball problem.

Thomas Scheuerle, Some solutions to this problem sorted by A350887.
Anji Dong, Katerina Saettone, Kendra Song, and Alexandru Zaharescu, An Equidistribution Result for Differences Associated with Square Pyramidal Numbers, arXiv:2412.10097 [math.NT], 2024. See p. 1.
Thomas Scheuerle, Recursive solution formulas.
Index entries for sequences related to sums of squares.

Cf. A350887 (number of layers), A350888 (denominator of slope).
Cf. A000330, A000447, A024215, A024381 (square pyramidal numbers for slope 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4).
Cf. A076215, A001032, A134419, A106521. Some related problems.

sqtest(n,c)={q=1; for(t=2, c, t+=n; q+=(t*t); if(issquare(q), break)); q}
z=500000; a=[];for(n=0,z,r=sqtest(n,z); if(issquare(r), a=concat(a, sqrtint(r)))); a=vecsort(a) \\ Last valid value for z=500000 is 990983.

a(n)^2 = A350888(n)^2*binomial(2*A350887(n), 3)/4 + 2*A350888(n)*binomial(A350887(n), 2) + A350887(n).
a(n)^2 = c*((b*(4*b*c^2-(6*c-2)*b + 12*(c-1)) + 12)/12), with c = A350887(n) and b = A350888(n). Expanded to see factors more clearly.
a(n)^2 = c*b^2*( ((1/b) + (c-1)/2)^2 + (c^2-1)/12 ). Shorter form of above.
(12*a(n)^2) mod A350887(n) = 0.
((12*a(n)^2/A350887(n)) - 12) mod A350888(n) = 0.
Choose n such that A350887(n) = 4 and a(n) = 54 and A350888(n) = 14, then we may find further solutions recursively for all A350887(m) = 4 with
  x = -A350888(n) = -14; y = -a(n) = -54 and also x = A350888(n) = 14; y = a(n) = 54. Recursive solutions:
  x_(n+1) = 15*x_n + 4*y_n + 6
  y_(n+1) = 56*x_n + 15*y_n + 24 and also:
  x_(n+1) = 15*x_n - 4*y_n + 6
  y_(n+1) = -56*x_n + 15*y_n - 24.
Choose n such that A350887(n) = 9 and a(n) = 27597 and A350888(n) = 1932, then we may find further solutions recursively for all A350887(m) = 9 with x = -A350888(n) = -1932; y = -a(n) = -27597 and also x = A350888(n) = 1932; y = a(n) = 27597. Recursive solutions:
  x_(n+1) = 4999*x_n + 350*y_n + 882
  y_(n+1) = 71400*x_n + 4999*y_n + 12600 and also:
  x_(n+1) = 4999*x_n - 350*y_n + 6
  y_(n+1) = -71400*x_n + 4999*y_n - 12600.
Further recursive solution formulas for other values of A350887(n) will be provided in a link as for some values the coefficients become very large sometimes with several hundred digits.
a(n) != a(m) if n != m.

A350888 Let X,Y,Z be positive integer solutions to X^2 = Sum_{j=0..Y-1} (1+Z*j)^2, where solutions for Y or Z < 1 are excluded. This sequence lists the values for Z sorted by X.

Original entry on oeis.org

14, 1, 432, 8, 13, 1932, 12958, 367, 30, 3, 1554, 194, 5082, 388320, 1349, 15254, 178542, 163, 181, 11636654, 418782, 6791, 11928, 192638, 1086, 2209447, 5166, 19317900, 1981979, 262, 348711312, 4799102, 7379, 60240793

Offset: 1

Thomas Scheuerle, Feb 25 2022

This is a generalization of the cannonball problem for pyramids with a slope of 1/a(n). In the cannonball problem, a square pyramid of stacked balls shall contain a square number of balls in total. Each layer of such a pyramid consists of a square number of balls, in the classic case the top layer has one ball, the layers below contain adjacent square numbers of balls. For this sequence we ignore the fact that if adjacent layers do not alternate between odd and even squares the stacking will become difficult at least for sphere-like objects. We start in the top layer always with one ball, but will skip a constant count of square numbers between each layer. This results in pyramids which slope <= 1. A350887(n) is the number of layers needed to stack such a pyramid. As this sequence is only a list of solutions, n has no known relation to its definition.

For each slope 1/a(n) there exists exactly one or no such pyramid with a square number of balls.

			a(1) = 14 and A350886(1) = 54, A350887(1) = 4:
  54^2 = 1^2 + 15^2 + 29^2 + 43^2.
a(2) = 1 and A350886(2) = 70, A350887(2) = 24:
  70^2 = 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + ... + 23^2 + 24^2. This is the classic solution for the cannonball problem.

Thomas Scheuerle, Some solutions to this problem sorted by A350887.
Anji Dong, Katerina Saettone, Kendra Song, and Alexandru Zaharescu, An Equidistribution Result for Differences Associated with Square Pyramidal Numbers, arXiv:2412.10097 [math.NT], 2024. See p. 1.
Thomas Scheuerle, Recursive solution formulas.
Index entries for sequences related to sums of squares.

Cf. A350886 (square root of pyramid), A350887 (number of layers).
Cf. A000330, A000447, A024215, A024381 (square pyramidal numbers for slope 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4).
Cf. A076215, A001032, A134419, A106521. Some related problems.
Cf. A186699.

sqtest(n, c)={q=1; for(t=2, c, t+=n; q+=(t*t); if(issquare(q), break)); q}
z=500000; b=[; ]; for(n=0, z, r=sqtest(n, z); if(issquare(r), b=concat(b, [sqrtint(r); n+1]))); b=vecsort(b, 1); vector(#b, k, b[2,k]) \\ Last valid value for z=500000 is 5082.

A350886(n)^2 = a(n)^2*binomial(2*A350887(n), 3)/4 + 2*a(n)*binomial(A350887(n), 2) + A350887(n).
A350886(n)^2 = c*((b*(4*b*c^2-(6*c-2)*b + 12*(c-1)) + 12)/12), with c = A350887(n) and b = a(n). Expanded to see factors more clearly.
A350886(n)^2 = c*b^2*( ((1/b) + (c-1)/2)^2 + (c^2-1)/12 ). Shorter form of above.
a(n) != a(m) if n != m.
Let s(n) be the sequence of numbers such that A350887(s(n)) = 4 and s(n) is sorted in ascending order, then a(s(n)) has the ordinary generating function (2*(-7 + z))/(-1 + 31*z - 31*z^2 + z^3).
Let s(n) be the sequence of numbers such that A350887(s(n)) = 49 and s(n) is sorted in ascending order, then a(s(n)) has the ordinary generating function (-13 + z)/(-1 + 391*z - 391*z^2 + z^3).

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A350886 Let X,Y,Z be positive integer solutions to X^2 = Sum_{j=0..Y-1} (1+Z*j)^2, where solutions for Y or Z < 1 are excluded. This sequence lists the sorted values for X.

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