A255351 Values of b = max {a,b,c,d} for solutions to a^4 + b^4 = c^4 + d^4, a < c < d < b, ordered by size of b.

158, 239, 292, 316, 474, 478, 502, 542, 584, 631, 632, 717, 790, 876, 948, 956, 1004, 1084, 1106, 1168, 1195, 1203, 1262, 1264, 1381, 1422, 1434, 1460, 1506, 1580, 1626, 1673, 1738, 1752, 1893, 1896, 1912

Offset

1,1

Comments

See A018786 for the values of a^4 + b^4 = c^4 + d^4, and A255352 for the list of the full quadruples (a,b,c,d). See there for further comments, motivation and references.

The values of b listed here allow one to reproduce the full solutions (a,b,c,d) with not too much effort, cf. the inner loops of the PARI code.

Links

Mia Muessig, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..30000

Mia Muessig, Julia code for finding general taxicab numbers

Example

The quadruples [a,b,c,d] are, listed in order of increasing b = max{a,b,c,d}):
[59, 158, 133, 134], [7, 239, 157, 227], [193, 292, 256, 257], [118, 316, 266, 268], [177, 474, 399, 402], [14, 478, 314, 454], [271, 502, 298, 497], [103, 542, 359, 514], [386, 584, 512, 514], [222, 631, 503, 558], [236, 632, 532, 536], [21, 717, 471, 681], [295, 790, 665, 670], [579, 876, 768, 771], [354, 948, 798, 804], [28, 956, 628, 908], ...

Prog

(PARI) {n=4; for(b=1, 1999, for(a=1, b, t=a^n+b^n; for(c=a+1, sqrtn(t\2, n), ispower(t-c^n, n)||next; print1(b", "); next(3))))}

Crossrefs

Cf. A018786, A255352.

Sequence in context: A045245 A053235 A352349 * A088728 A258960 A072555

Adjacent sequences: A255348 A255349 A255350 * A255352 A255353 A255354

Keyword

nonn

Author

M. F. Hasler, Feb 21 2015

Status

approved