OFFSET
3,1
COMMENTS
This is r(n,4,4) in Alter's notation.
LINKS
R. Alter, Computations and generalizations on a remark of Ramanujan, pp. 182-196 of "Analytic Number Theory (Philadelphia, 1980)", ed. M. I. Knopp, Lect. Notes Math., Vol. 899, 1981. See Table 12, page 194.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,-1).
FORMULA
a(n) = n + 480 for n >= 32.
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 5978882 = 3^4 + 40^4 + 43^4 = 8^4 + 37^4 + 45^4 = 15^4 + 32^4 + 47^4 = 23^4 + 25^4 + 48^4.
a(4) = 236674 = 1^4 + 2^4 + 7^4 + 22^4 = 3^4 + 6^4 + 18^4 + 19^4 = 7^4 + 14^4 + 16^4 + 19^4 = 8^4 + 16^4 + 17^4 + 17^4.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Sean A. Irvine, Apr 04 2021
STATUS
approved