More Upper Bounds on Taxicab and Cabtaxi Numbers
Po-Chi Su
Hsing-Hua Senior High School
Miaoli 35144
Taiwan
Abstract:
For positive integers a, b and integers x, y
such that S = a3 + b3 =
x3 + y3, we
prove that x+y ≡ a+b (mod 6);
moreover, we give a parametric function ri →
(x(ri),y(ri)) with
(x(ri))3 + (y(ri))3 =
a3 + b3 for chosen
parameters ri, and we
conjecture that most such S are multiples of 18 if S is large
enough. Accordingly, floating sieving is introduced and upper
bounds on the Cabtaxi numbers Ca(n) with 43 ≤ n ≤
57, and the Taxicab numbers Ta(n) with n = 23,24 are
given. Among them, Ta(n) with n = 23,24, and Ca(n)
with n = 43,44, are included in the On-Line Encyclopedia of
Integer Sequences.
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(Concerned with sequences
A011541
A047696.)
Received April 29 2015; revised versions received November 17 2015; January 20 2016; March 28 2016.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, April 21 2016.
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