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A104395 Sums of 5 distinct positive pentatope numbers (A000332). 6

%I #28 Nov 20 2023 23:03:42

%S 126,182,217,237,247,251,266,301,321,331,335,357,377,386,387,391,412,

%T 421,422,426,441,442,446,451,455,456,477,497,507,511,532,542,546,551,

%U 561,562,566,576,581,586,591,595,606,616,620,626,630,642,646,650

%N Sums of 5 distinct positive pentatope numbers (A000332).

%C Hyun Kwang Kim asserts that every positive integer can be represented as the sum of no more than 8 pentatope numbers; but in this sequence we are only concerned with sums of nonzero distinct pentatope numbers.

%D Conway, J. H. and Guy, R. K. The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 55-57, 1996.

%H Robert Israel, <a href="/A104395/b104395.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H Hyun Kwang Kim, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06710-2">On Regular Polytope Numbers</a>, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 131 (2003), 65-75.

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PentatopeNumber.html">Pentatope Number</a>.

%F a(n) = Ptop(g) + Ptop(h) + Ptop(i) + Ptop(j) + Ptop(k) for some positive g=/=h=/=i=/=j=/=k and Ptop(n) = binomial(n+3,4).

%p N:= 1000: # for terms <= N

%p ptop:= n -> n*(n+1)*(n+2)*(n+3)/24:

%p P:= 1:

%p for i from 1 while ptop(i) < N do

%p P:= P * (1 + x*y^ptop(i))

%p od:

%p sort(map(degree,convert(convert(series(coeff(P,x,5),y,N+1),polynom),list)));

%p # _Robert Israel_, Nov 20 2023

%Y Cf. A000332, A100009, A102857, A104392, A104393, A104394.

%K easy,nonn

%O 1,1

%A _Jonathan Vos Post_, Mar 05 2005

%E Extended by _Ray Chandler_, Mar 05 2005

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