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Numbers that are the sum of 8 positive 4th powers.
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%I #32 Feb 16 2025 08:32:27

%S 8,23,38,53,68,83,88,98,103,113,118,128,133,148,163,168,178,183,193,

%T 198,213,228,243,248,258,263,278,293,308,323,328,338,343,353,358,368,

%U 373,388,403,408,418,423,433,438,453,468,483,488,498,503,518,533,548,563,568

%N Numbers that are the sum of 8 positive 4th powers.

%H David A. Corneth, <a href="/A003342/b003342.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a> (first 1000 terms from T. D. Noe)

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BiquadraticNumber.html">Biquadratic Number.</a>

%e From _David A. Corneth_, Aug 04 2020: (Start)

%e 5396 is in the sequence as 5396 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4.

%e 8789 is in the sequence as 8789 = 5^4 + 5^4 + 5^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 7^4.

%e 12469 is in the sequence as 12469 = 1^4 + 3^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 5^4 + 5^4 + 10^4. (End)

%t Select[Range[500], AnyTrue[PowersRepresentations[#, 8, 4], First[#]>0&]&] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Jul 18 2017 *)

%o (Python)

%o from itertools import combinations_with_replacement as mc

%o from sympy import integer_nthroot

%o def iroot4(n): return integer_nthroot(n, 4)[0]

%o def aupto(lim):

%o pows4 = set(i**4 for i in range(1, iroot4(lim)+1) if i**4 <= lim)

%o return sorted(t for t in set(sum(c) for c in mc(pows4, 8)) if t <= lim)

%o print(aupto(568)) # _Michael S. Branicky_, Aug 23 2021

%Y Cf. A000583, A003331, A003341, A003343, A003353, A345577, A345833.

%K nonn,easy,changed

%O 1,1

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_