OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The sequence is finite, with last term a(99) = 374.
LINKS
M. F. Hasler, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..99 (full sequence).
Brennan Benfield and Oliver Lippard, Integers that are not the sum of positive powers, arXiv:2404.08193 [math.NT], 2024. See p. 4.
EXAMPLE
The smallest positive numbers not in the sequence are:
10 = 10 * 1^3, 17 = 2^3 + 9 * 1^3, 24 = 2 * 2^3 + 8 * 1^3,
31 = 3 * 2^3 + 7 * 1^3 and then 36 = 3^3 + 9 * 1^3.
The last 10 terms of the sequence are a(90 .. 99) = {196, 201, 208, 215, 222, 257, 294, 313, 320, 374}.
MATHEMATICA
Select[Range[400], (pr = PowersRepresentations[#, 10, 3][[;; , 1]]) == {} || Max[pr] == 0 &] (* Amiram Eldar, Aug 24 2020 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,full
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Aug 24 2020
STATUS
approved