OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
See A185128 for further information.
REFERENCES
Albert H. Beiler, Recreations in the theory of numbers, New York, Dover, (2nd ed.) 1966, p. 197, no. 8.
LINKS
N. J. A. Sloane, Annotated scan of Beiler's Table 81, based on page 197 of Beiler's "Recreations in the Theory of Numbers: The Queen of Mathematics Entertains", New York, Dover, First ed., 1964.
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 105, corresponding to the second pair of triangular numbers 171 = 18*(18+1)/2 and 105 = 14*(14+1)/2, which produce the sum 276 = 23*(23+1)/2 and the difference 66 = 11*(11+1)/2, both of which are triangular numbers.
MATHEMATICA
PROG
(PARI) lista(n) = {v = vector(nn, n, n*(n+1)/2); for (n=2, nn, for (k=1, n-1, if (ispolygonal(v[n]+v[k], 3) && ispolygonal(v[n]-v[k], 3), print1(v[k], ", ")); ); ); } \\ Michel Marcus, Jan 08 2015
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Martin Renner, Jan 20 2012
EXTENSIONS
Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 28 2024
STATUS
approved