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The Pollock octahedral numbers conjecture is a conjecture that every integer is the sum of at most seven octahedral numbers, first stated by Sir Frederick Pollock, better known as a lawyer and politician but also a contributor of papers on mathematics to the Royal Society. References * Dickson, L. E., History of the Theory of Numbers, Vol. 2: Diophantine Analysis. Washington, 1920, reprinted New York: Dover, 2005. P.23. * F. Pollock, "On the extension of the principle of Fermat's theorem on the polygonal numbers to the higher order of series whose ultimate differences are constant", Proc. Roy. Soc. London 5 (1850) 922-4. JSTOR * Eric W. Weisstein. "Octahedral Number." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource.[1] Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/" |
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