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A284788
Even numbers that cannot be represented in at least two ways as the sum of two odd composites.
2
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34, 38, 40, 44, 46, 52, 56, 62, 68
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
If n is even and n > 68, then n can be written as at least two distinct sums of two composite odd integers.
REFERENCES
D. Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, 1997, page 111.
EXAMPLE
34 is in the sequence because 34 = 9 + 25 but cannot be represented in a second way as the sum of two odd composites with 9, 15, 21, 25, 27, 33.
MATHEMATICA
oddco = Select[Range[9, 100, 2], ! PrimeQ[#] &]; Select[Range[2, 100, 2], Length@ Quiet@ IntegerPartitions[#, {2}, oddco, 2] < 2 &] (* Giovanni Resta, Apr 03 2017 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A118081, A284787 (complement).
Sequence in context: A084563 A194396 A321193 * A323288 A322131 A209211
KEYWORD
fini,full,nonn
AUTHOR
Bernard Schott, Apr 03 2017
STATUS
approved