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Numbers that are the sum of nine fourth powers in exactly ten ways.
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%I #6 Jul 31 2021 21:28:42

%S 9299,12708,12948,13269,13349,13524,13589,13764,13829,13893,14133,

%T 14228,14468,14564,14869,14934,14964,15014,15094,15109,15174,15189,

%U 15333,15428,15429,15524,15588,15604,15653,16214,16229,16469,16564,16644,16773,16883,16948

%N Numbers that are the sum of nine fourth powers in exactly ten ways.

%C Differs from A345594 at term 15 because 14804 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 1^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 8^4 + 8^4 + 9^4 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 1^4 + 4^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 8^4 + 9^4 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 11^4 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 7^4 + 8^4 + 8^4 + 8^4 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 6^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 8^4 + 8^4 = 1^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 4^4 + 6^4 + 9^4 + 9^4 = 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 3^4 + 4^4 + 6^4 + 7^4 + 8^4 + 9^4 = 2^4 + 3^4 + 3^4 + 3^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 8^4 + 9^4 = 2^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 9^4 = 2^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 = 3^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 9^4.

%H Sean A. Irvine, <a href="/A345852/b345852.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%e 12708 is a term because 12708 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 1^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 4^4 + 7^4 + 10^4 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 1^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 10^4 = 1^4 + 1^4 + 1^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 8^4 + 8^4 = 1^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 8^4 + 9^4 = 1^4 + 2^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 7^4 + 9^4 = 1^4 + 3^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 9^4 = 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 3^4 + 3^4 + 7^4 + 10^4 = 2^4 + 2^4 + 3^4 + 3^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 7^4 + 8^4 + 8^4 = 2^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 8^4 = 3^4 + 4^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 + 6^4 + 7^4 + 7^4 + 8^4.

%o (Python)

%o from itertools import combinations_with_replacement as cwr

%o from collections import defaultdict

%o keep = defaultdict(lambda: 0)

%o power_terms = [x**4 for x in range(1, 1000)]

%o for pos in cwr(power_terms, 9):

%o tot = sum(pos)

%o keep[tot] += 1

%o rets = sorted([k for k, v in keep.items() if v == 10])

%o for x in range(len(rets)):

%o print(rets[x])

%Y Cf. A345594, A345802, A345842, A345851, A345862, A346345.

%K nonn

%O 1,1

%A _David Consiglio, Jr._, Jun 26 2021