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The numbers that are not the sum of at most 4 tetrahedral numbers are given by the sequence 17, 27, 33, 52, 73, ..., (sequence
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This conjecture has been proven for all but finitely many positive integers.
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Elessar Brady, Zarathustra (2016). "Sums of seven octahedral numbers".
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Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London
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The cube numbers case was established from 1909 to 1912 by
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Index

Pollock octahedral numbers conjecture
conjectures
additive number theory
Sir Frederick Pollock
Royal Society
Fermat polygonal number theorem
figurate numbers
positive integer
tetrahedral numbers
A000797
OEIS
octahedral numbers
cube numbers
Wieferich
A. J. Kempner
centered nonagonal numbers


Dickson, L. E.
History of the Theory of Numbers
ISBN
0-486-44233-0
Frederick Pollock
JSTOR
111069
Weisstein, Eric W.
"Pollock's Conjecture"
MathWorld
arXiv
1509.04316

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