login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A325421
Numbers k coprime to 10 such that there are exactly two values of A for which k^2+4*A and k^2-4*A are perfect squares.
0
169, 289, 507, 841, 867, 1183, 1369, 1521, 1681, 1859, 2023, 2523, 2601, 2809, 3179, 3211, 3549, 3721, 3887, 4107, 4563, 5043, 5239, 5329, 5491, 5577, 5887, 6069, 6647, 7267, 7569, 7803, 7921, 7943, 8281, 8427, 8959, 9251, 9409, 9537, 9583, 9633, 9971
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
These are the odd integers k, not a multiple of 5, such that k^2 is an arithmetic mean of two other odd perfect squares in exactly two ways.
EXAMPLE
169 is a term since 169^2±4*(5070) and 169^2±4*(7140) are all perfect squares.
PROG
(PARI) ok(k)={if(k%2==0||k%5==0, 0, my(k2=k^2, L=List()); forstep(i=1, k-1, 2, my(d=k2-i^2); if(issquare(k2+d), listput(L, i))); #L==2)}
for(k=1, 10000, if(ok(k), print1(k, ", "))) \\ Andrew Howroyd, Sep 06 2019
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A202004 A020249 A287391 * A296304 A156159 A099011
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Mohsin A. Shaikh, Sep 06 2019
EXTENSIONS
a(28)-a(43) from Andrew Howroyd, Sep 06 2019
STATUS
approved