Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Sums of Cubes and Squares of Sums
Today I turned 25321 days old, a prime number of days, and a prime with the property that the sum of the cubes of its digits equals the square of the sum of its digits. In other words: This prime is a member of OEIS A225567: Primes with nonzero digits such that sum of cubes of digits equal to square of sums. It's initial members are: Serendipitously I then rediscovered the old and famous connection between the sum of the cubes of the first n natural numbers and the square of the sum of these some numbers, specifically: It's easy to see why the first four members of the sequence (1423, 2143, 2341 and 4231 are members) because these are simply instances of: I also discovered a similar relationship involving the divisors of any natural number with divisors, namely that: The previous looks more difficult than it actually is and a simple example will assist. Let's consider the number 10. It has four divisors 1, 2, 5 and 10. Each of these divisors has 1, 2, 2 and 4 divisors respectively. We find that: It's as simple as that and it applies to every natural number. Of course 1224 and permutations of these digits can be found in OEIS A227073: Positive numbers without the digit 0 such that sum of cubes of the digits equals the square of the sum of the digits. The initial members of this sequence are:
Labels:
cubes,
sigma,
sigma function,
square,
square of sum,
sums of cubes
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