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On certain ratios regarding integer numbers which are both triangulars and squares

Number Theory 2017-03-21 v1

Abstract

We investigate integer numbers which possess at the same time the properties to be triangulars and squares, that are, numbers aa for which do exist integers mm and nn such that a=n2=m(m+1)2 a = n^2 = \frac{m \cdot (m+1)}{2} . In particular, we are interested about ratios between successive numbers of that kind. While the limit of the ratio for increasing aa is already known in literature, to the best of our knowledge the limit of the ratio of differences of successive ratios, again for increasing aa, is a new investigation. We give a result for the latter limit, showing that it coincides with the former one, and we formulate a conjecture about related limits.

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@article{arxiv.1703.06701,
  title  = {On certain ratios regarding integer numbers which are both triangulars and squares},
  author = {Fabio Roman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06701},
  year   = {2017}
}
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