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A123999
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Number of ordered ways of writing n as a sum of 4 squares of nonnegative numbers less than 4.
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1
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1, 4, 6, 4, 5, 12, 12, 4, 6, 16, 18, 12, 8, 16, 24, 12, 1, 12, 18, 12, 6, 4, 12, 12, 0, 0, 6, 4, 4, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
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OFFSET
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0,2
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COMMENTS
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Through n = 15, a(n) = number of ordered ways to write n as the sum of 4 squares. For n > 15, we must exclude sums which include 4^2, 5^2, 6^2 and the like. The values of n such that a(n) = 0 are 16, 24, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35 and all n > 36. Without the restriction on the size of squares, all natural numbers can be written as the sum of 4 squares, as Lagrange proved in 1750. This sequence is to 4 as A123337 Number of ordered ways to write n as the sum of 5 squares less than 5, is to 5.
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FORMULA
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a(n) = Card{(a,b,c,d) such that 0<=a,b,c,d<4 and a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + d^2 = n}.
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EXAMPLE
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a(0) = 1 because of the unique sum 0 = 0^2 + 0^2 + 0^2 + 0^2.
a(1) = 4 because of the 4 permutations 1 = 0^2 + 0^2 + 0^2 + 1^2 = 0^2 + 0^2 + 1^2 + 0^2 = 0^2 + 1^2 + 0^2 + 0^2 = 1^2 + 0^2 + 0^2 + 0^2.
a(4) = 5 because of 4 = 1^2 + 1^2 + 1^2 + 1^2 plus the 4 permutations of 4 = 0^2 + 0^2 + 0^2 + 2^2.
a(16) = 1 because 16 = 2^2 + 2^2 + 2^2 + 2^2.
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MATHEMATICA
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a[n_] := Total[ Length /@ Permutations /@ IntegerPartitions[n, {4}, Range[0, 3]^2]]; a /@ Range[0, 72] (* Giovanni Resta, Jun 13 2016 *)
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KEYWORD
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easy,nonn
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EXTENSIONS
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Corrected typo in third example Dave Zobel (dzobel(AT)alumni.caltech.edu), Mar 07 2009
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STATUS
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approved
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