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A079611
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Waring's problem: conjectured values for G(n), the smallest number m such that every sufficiently large number is the sum of at most m n-th powers of positive integers.
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2
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1, 4, 4, 16, 6, 9, 8, 32, 13, 12, 12, 16, 14, 15, 16, 64, 18, 27, 20, 25
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OFFSET
| 1,2
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COMMENTS
| The only certain values are G(1) = 1, G(2) = 4 and G(4) = 16.
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REFERENCES
| R. C. Vaughan and T. D. Wooley, Waring's problem: a survey, pp. 285-324 of Surveys in Number Theory (Urbana, May 21, 2000), ed. M. A. Bennett et al., Peters, 2003.
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CROSSREFS
| Cf. A002376, A002377, A002804, A174406.
Sequence in context: A102376 A091278 A127473 * A174595 A160020 A075882
Adjacent sequences: A079608 A079609 A079610 * A079612 A079613 A079614
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KEYWORD
| nonn,hard
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AUTHOR
| N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jan 28 2003
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