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A145856

Least number k>1 such that centered n-gonal number n*k(k-1)/2+1 is a perfect square, or 0 if no such k exists.

3, 0, 2, 4, 3, 8, 16, 2, 17, 9, 15, 5, 6, 16, 2, 3, 6, 0, 7, 4, 3, 40, 7, 2, 22, 8, 111, 4, 16, 8, 16, 0, 3, 9, 2, 5, 990, 9, 15, 3, 46, 16, 10, 5, 6, 336, 10, 2, 30, 0, 31, 16, 11, 416, 7, 3, 11, 33, 55, 4, 78, 56, 2, 6, 3, 8, 47751, 12, 16, 24, 48, 0, 49, 25, 17, 13, 6, 9, 2640, 2, 6721

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OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

Jonathan Vos Post, When Centered Polygonal Numbers are Perfect Squares, submitted to Mathematics Magazine, 4 May 2004, manuscript no. 04-1165, unpublished, available upon request. - Jonathan Vos Post, Oct 25 2008

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..81.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Centered Polygonal Numbers

Index entries for sequences related to centered polygonal numbers

FORMULA

a(n) = 0 for n in A166259.

a(n) = A120744(n) + 1. - Alexander Adamchuk, Oct 10 2009

CROSSREFS