S001038


Numbers that are not the sum of 12 nonnegative 5-th powers.

18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127

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S001038

There are 70292 terms in this sequence, ending with 2103306, which means that all numbers greater than 2103306 can be written as the sum of 12 nonnegative 5-th powers. Note that the Mathematica program prints only the last 100 terms.

T. D. Noe, Plot of 70292 terms

T. D. Noe, Table of 1000 terms

Wikipedia, Waring’s problem

(Mma) nn = 19; lim = nn^5; t12 = Table[0, {lim}]; Do[num = i^5 + j^5 + k^5 + l^5 + m^5 + n^5 + o^5 + p^5 + q^5 + r^5 + s^5 + t^5; If[0 < num <= lim, t12[[num]]++], {i, 0, nn}, {j, i, nn}, {k, j, nn}, {l, k, nn}, {m, l, nn}, {n, m, nn}, {o, n, nn}, {p, o, nn}, {q, p, nn}, {r, q, nn}, {s, r, nn}, {t, s, nn}]; Take[Flatten[Position[t12, 0]], -100]

Cf. S001033-S001060.

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T. D. Noe, May 25 2017

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