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A008849 Numbers n such that the sum of divisors of n^3 is a square. 4
1, 7, 751530, 4730879, 5260710, 33116153, 37200735, 187062910, 226141311, 259109835, 260405145, 370049418, 522409465, 836308083, 1105725765, 1309440370, 1343713507, 1582989177, 1609505430, 1813768845, 2590345926, 3039492538, 3656866255 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

In 1657 Fermat challenged the world to find such numbers. [Dickson, Vol. 1, p. 54]

If n is a term and n is not divisible by 7, then 7*n is a term. - Don Dechman (dondechman_2000(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 26 2008

REFERENCES

A. H. Beiler, Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, Dover, NY, 1964, p. 9.

L. E. Dickson, History of the Theory of Numbers. Carnegie Institute Public. 256, Washington, DC, Vol. 1, 1919; Vol. 2, 1920; Vol. 3, 1923, see vol. 1, p. 54.

Julian Havil, Gamma, Exploring Euler's Constant, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2003, page 92.

I. Kaplansky, The challenges of Fermat, Wallis and Ozanam (and several related challenges): I. Fermat's first challenge, Preprint, 2002.

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A046872, A008850.

Sequence in context: A003835 A138878 A050938 * A076914 A076915 A051447

Adjacent sequences:  A008846 A008847 A008848 * A008850 A008851 A008852

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net) has supplied terms a(4) = 4730879 and beyond and verified completeness up to a(3) = 751530.

I. Kaplansky and W. Jagy have verified that there are no other terms below 3.8*10^9.

3656866255 added by Don Dechman, Mar 26 2008

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