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A056828 Numbers that are not the sum of at most three powerful (1) numbers. 3
7, 15, 23, 87, 111, 119 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Mollin and Walsh conjectured that there are no further terms.

Heath-Brown proved that the sequence is finite.

REFERENCES

Heath-Brown, D. R. "Ternary Quadratic Forms and Sums of Three Square-Full Numbers." In Seminaire de Theorie des Nombres, Paris 1986-87 (Ed. C. Goldstein). Boston, MA: Birkhauser, pp. 137-163, 1988.

Mollin and Walsh, On Powerful Numbers, Intern. J. Math. and Math. Sci, 9:801-806, 1986.

LINKS

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

EXAMPLE

Smallest powerful numbers are 1, 4, 8, 9, 16, 25,... so 7, 15 and 23 are not the sum of one, two or three of them.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001694.

Sequence in context: A029724 A194400 A177768 * A113505 A184920 A076796

Adjacent sequences:  A056825 A056826 A056827 * A056829 A056830 A056831

KEYWORD

fini,nonn

AUTHOR

Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Aug 30 2000

EXTENSIONS

No other terms less than 40000000 - Paul.Jobling(AT)WhiteCross.com, May 14, 2001.

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