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”).

A375241
Nontriangular numbers with digital root in {1, 3, 6, 9}.
2
9, 12, 18, 19, 24, 27, 30, 33, 37, 39, 42, 46, 48, 51, 54, 57, 60, 63, 64, 69, 72, 73, 75, 81, 82, 84, 87, 90, 93, 96, 99, 100, 102, 108, 109, 111, 114, 117, 118, 123, 126, 127, 129, 132, 135, 138, 141, 144, 145, 147, 150, 154, 156, 159, 162, 163, 165, 168, 172
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Except for 0, the triangular numbers (A000217) have digital root in {1, 3, 6, 9} (A055264), but the reverse is not always true since there are nontriangular numbers (A014132) with digital root in the same set.
REFERENCES
Albert H. Beiler, Recreations in the theory of numbers, New York, Dover, (2nd ed.) 1966. See p. 190.
LINKS
MATHEMATICA
A010888[n_]:=If[n>0, n - 9*Floor[(n-1)/9], 0]; Select[Range[0, 200], !OddQ[Sqrt[1+8#]] && MemberQ[{1, 3, 6, 9}, A010888[#]] &]
CROSSREFS
Intersection of A014132 and A055264. Complement of A375242 in A014132.
Sequence in context: A356842 A174525 A141552 * A317720 A162822 A087269
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy
AUTHOR
Stefano Spezia, Aug 07 2024
STATUS
approved