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A050791 Consider the Diophantine equation x^3+y^3=z^3+1 (1<x<y<z) or 'Fermat near misses'. Sequence gives values of z in monotonic increasing order. 11
12, 103, 150, 249, 495, 738, 1544, 1852, 1988, 2316, 4184, 5262, 5640, 8657, 9791, 9953, 11682, 14258, 21279, 21630, 31615, 36620, 36888, 38599, 38823, 40362, 41485, 47584, 57978, 59076, 63086, 73967, 79273, 83711, 83802, 86166, 90030 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Numbers n such that n^3+1 is expressible as the sum of two nonzero cubes (both greater than 1).

Values of z associated with A050794.

REFERENCES

Ian Stewart, "Game, Set and Math", Chapter 8, 'Close Encounters of the Fermat Kind', Penguin Books, Ed. 1991, pp. 107-124.

David Wells, "Curious and Interesting Numbers", Revised Ed. 1997, Penguin Books, On number "729", p. 147.

Mohammad K. Azarian, Diophantine Pair, Problem B-881, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3, August 1999, pp. 277-278. Solution appeared in Vol. 38, No. 2, May 2000, pp. 183-184.

LINKS

Lewis Mammel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..368

S. Ramanujan, Question 681, J. Ind. Math. Soc.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Diophantine Equation - 3rd Powers

EXAMPLE

2316 is in the sequence because 577^3 + 2304^3 = 2316^3 + 1.

MATHEMATICA

r[z_] := Reduce[ 1 < x < y < z && x^3 + y^3 == z^3 + 1, {x, y}, Integers]; z = 4; A050791 = {}; While[z < 10^4, If[r[z] =!= False, Print[z]; AppendTo[A050791, z]]; z++]; A050791 (* From Jean-François Alcover, Dec 27 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A050792, A050793, A050794, A050787.

Sequence in context: A052148 A133384 A052067 * A005771 A016228 A016276

Adjacent sequences:  A050788 A050789 A050790 * A050792 A050793 A050794

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

Patrick De Geest (pdg(AT)worldofnumbers.com), Sep 15 1999.

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Michel ten Voorde (seqfan(AT)tenvoorde.org)

Extended through 47584 by Jud McCranie (JudMcCranie(AT)ugaalum.uga.edu), Dec 25 2000

More terms from Don Reble (djr(AT)nk.ca), Nov 29 2001

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), May 08 2007

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