A381619 Sorted list of sums of 3 prices in minor currency units for a currency that has a 2-decimal minor unit, such that the riddle "sum of prices equals product of prices" has a solution, with prices expressed as floating point numbers with 2 decimals.
525, 540, 546, 549, 555, 561, 567, 570, 585, 588, 600, 612, 630, 642, 660, 660, 663, 675, 726, 735, 744, 750, 759, 765, 783, 792, 798, 810, 819, 825, 840, 840, 891, 897, 900, 930, 945, 957, 966, 966, 975, 981, 996, 1050, 1050, 1071, 1080, 1092, 1125, 1134, 1155, 1155, 1170
Offset: 1
Examples
a(1) = 525 because 1.50 + 1.75 + 2.00 = 1.50*1.75*2.00 = 5.25 is the solution with minimum sum; a(15) = a(16) = 660 because there are 2 solutions: 0.80 + 2.50 + 3.30 = 0.80*2.50*3.30 = 6.60 and 1.10 + 1.50 + 4.00 = 1.10*1.50*4.00 = 6.60; a(31) = a(32) = 840: 0.60 + 2.80 + 5.00 = 0.60*2.80*5.00 = 8.40 and 1.00 + 1.40 + 6.00 = 1.00*1.40*6.00 = 8.40; a(622) = 100030002 is the largest term: 0.01 + 100.01 + 1000200.00 = 0.01*100.01*1000200.00 = 1000300.02.
Links
- Hugo Pfoertner, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..622
- Hugo Pfoertner, Solution triples sorted by sum. (2025)
- Hugo Pfoertner, Solution triples sorted by smallest price. (2025)
- Eric Snyder and others, Finding solutions of sum a_i = product a_i = n, where the a_i are "price rationals", question in Mathematics StackExchange, Jun 29, 2022.
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