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A066510 Conjectured list of positive numbers which are not of the form r^i-s^j, where r,s,i,j are integers with i>1, j>1. 1
6, 14, 34, 42, 58, 62, 66, 70, 78, 86, 90, 102, 110, 114, 130, 158, 178, 182, 202, 210, 230, 238, 254, 258, 266, 274, 278, 302, 306, 310, 314, 322, 326, 330, 358, 374, 378, 390, 394, 398, 402, 410, 418, 422, 426, 430, 434, 438, 446, 450, 454 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

This is a famous hard problem and the terms shown are only conjectured values.

The terms shown are not the difference of two powers below 10^19. - Don Reble.

One can immediately represent the odd numbers and the multiples of four as differences of two squares. - Don Reble.

REFERENCES

R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, Sections D9 and B19.

LINKS

Alf van der Poorten, Remarks on the sequence of 'perfect' powers

EXAMPLE

Examples showing that certain numbers are not in the sequence: 10 = 13^3-3^7, 22 = 7^2 - 3^3, 29 = 15^2 - 14^2, 31 = 2^5 - 1, 52 = 14^2 - 12^2, 54 = 3^4 - 3^3, 60 = 2^6 - 2^2, 68 = 10^2 - 2^5, 72 = 3^4 - 3^2, 76 = 5^3 - 7^2, 84 = 10^2 - 2^4, ...

50 = 7^2 - -1^3, 82 = 9^2 - -1^3, 226 = 15^2 - -1^3, 246 = 11^2 - -5^3, 290 = 17^2 - -1^3, ... [Typos corrected by Gerry Myerson (gerry(AT)math.mq.edu.au), May 14 2008]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A074980, A023057.

Sequence in context: A078836 A142875 A074981 * A036387 A053560 A119874

Adjacent sequences:  A066507 A066508 A066509 * A066511 A066512 A066513

KEYWORD

nonn,hard

AUTHOR

Don Reble (djr(AT)nk.ca), Oct 12 2002

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