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A018889 Shortest representation as sum of positive cubes requires exactly 8 cubes. 9
15, 22, 50, 114, 167, 175, 186, 212, 231, 238, 303, 364, 420, 428, 454 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Wieferich proved that 167 is the unique prime in this sequence. - Jonathan Vos Post, Sep 23 2006

REFERENCES

J. Bohman and C.-E. Froberg, Numerical investigation of Waring's problem for cubes, Nordisk Tidskr. Informationsbehandling (BIT) 21 (1981), 118-122.

K. S. McCurley, An effective seven-cube theorem, J. Number Theory, 19 (1984), 176-183.

Joe Roberts, Lure of the Integers, entry 239.

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Cubic Number

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Warings Problem

Index entries for sequences related to sums of cubes

G. L. Honaker, Jr. and Chris Caldwell, et al., A Prime Curios Page.

MATHEMATICA

max = 500; nn = Union[(#*#).# & /@ Tuples[Range[0, 7], {7}]][[1 ;; max]]; Select[{#, PowersRepresentations[#, 8, 3]} & /@ Complement[Range[max], nn] , #[[2]] != {} &][[All, 1]] (* From Jean-François Alcover, Jul 21 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Subsequence of A018888.

Sequence in context: A006615 A114867 A109288 * A186525 A065728 A166665

Adjacent sequences:  A018886 A018887 A018888 * A018890 A018891 A018892

KEYWORD

nonn,fini,full,nice

AUTHOR

Anon

EXTENSIONS

Corrected by Arlin Anderson (starship1(AT)gmail.com). Additional comments from Jud McCranie (JudMcCranie(AT)ugaalum.uga.edu).

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