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A204521
Square root of floor(A055812(n) / 5).
4
0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 4, 8, 21, 55, 72, 144, 377, 987, 1292, 2584, 6765, 17711, 23184, 46368, 121393, 317811, 416020, 832040, 2178309, 5702887, 7465176
OFFSET
1,5
COMMENTS
Or: Numbers whose square yields another square when written in base 5.
(For the first 3 terms, the above "base 5" interpretation is questionable, since they have only 1 digit in base 5. It is understood that dropping this digit yields 0.)
Base-5 analog of A031150 [base 10], A001353 [base 3], A001542 [base 2].
The square roots of A055812 are listed in A204520.
FORMULA
Empirical g.f.: x^4*(x^5+3*x^4+8*x^3+4*x^2+3*x+1) / ((x^4-4*x^2-1)*(x^4+4*x^2-1)). - Colin Barker, Sep 15 2014
PROG
(PARI) b=5; for(n=1, 2e9, issquare(n^2\b) && print1(sqrtint(n^2\b), ", "))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Jan 15 2012
STATUS
approved