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A076950
Smallest k such that nk-1 is a cube.
0
1, 1, 3, 7, 13, 21, 4, 43, 1, 73, 91, 111, 5, 2, 183, 211, 241, 7, 27, 343, 6, 421, 463, 507, 553, 189, 19, 1, 757, 813, 7, 931, 993, 1057, 196, 37, 36, 518, 126, 1483, 1561, 3, 8, 1807, 61, 1981, 2071, 2163, 140, 2353, 2451, 234, 2653, 91, 2863, 532, 9, 3193, 3307, 3423
OFFSET
1,3
MATHEMATICA
Do[k = 1; While[ !IntegerQ[(n*k - 1)^(1/3)], k++ ]; Print[k], {n, 1, 59}]
skc[n_] :=Module[{k = 1}, While[! IntegerQ[Surd[ n*k - 1, 3]], k++]; k]; Array[skc, 60] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 15 2022 *)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A033551 A350296 A022777 * A169633 A069194 A100531
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amarnath Murthy, Oct 20 2002
EXTENSIONS
Edited and extended by Robert G. Wilson v, Oct 21 2002
Corrected and extended by Harvey P. Dale, Feb 15 2022
STATUS
approved