login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A118711
Integers k such that the k-th triangular number t_k has all its base-12 digits contained in {1,5,7,11}.
1
1, 13, 61, 82, 898, 2962, 2989, 9133, 20077, 20653, 28669, 29266, 35581, 35842, 37501, 99133, 236674, 286717, 424621, 424957, 821698, 941650, 1704301, 1722370, 2978413, 3328258, 4494466, 10022317, 40392829, 49870141, 50668882, 53933053
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
In base 12 all primes greater than 3 end in the digits 1, 5, 7, E, where X is 10 and E is 11. They are the digits that satisfy GCD(d,12)=1.
The sequence in base 12 is: 1, 11, 51, 6X, 62X, 186X, 1891, 5351, E751, EE51, 14711, 14E2X, 18711, 188XX, 19851, 49451, E4E6X, 119E11, 185891, 185E11, 33762X, 394E2X, 6X2351, 6E08XX, EE7751, 11460XX, 1608E6X, 3433E51, 1163E591, 14850051, 14E7632X, 1608E311, 18331451, 1870E191, 1974E311, ..., . Note that all elements end in 1 or X. The corresponding triangular numbers after the first end in the digits 17 or 77, but not respectively.
FORMULA
k is a term if the k-th triangular number t_k = k*(k+1)/2 has its base-12 digits contained in {1,5,7,11}.
A000217(a(n)) = A118706(n), or equivalently, a(n) = (sqrt(8*A118706(n)+1)-1)/2. - Amiram Eldar, Aug 02 2024
EXAMPLE
82 = 6X_12 is a term since the triangular number t=82*(82+1)/2 = 3403 = 1E77_12.
MAPLE
L:=[]: pd:={1, 5, 7, 11}: for w to 1 do for n from 1 to 10^6 do t:=n*(n+1)/2; lod:=convert(t, base, 12); sod:=convert(lod, set); if sod subset pd then L:=[op(L), [n, t]] fi; od od; L;
MATHEMATICA
fQ[n_] := Union@ Join[{1, 5, 7, 11}, IntegerDigits[n(n + 1)/2, 12]] == {1, 5, 7, 11}; lst = {}; Do[ If[fQ@n, AppendTo[lst, n]], {n, 10^8}] (* Robert G. Wilson v *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Walter Kehowski, May 24 2006
EXTENSIONS
Edited and extended (a(23)-a(32)) by Robert G. Wilson v, Jun 20 2006
STATUS
approved