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In mathematics, a square triangular number (or triangular square number) is a number which is both a triangular number and a perfect square. There are an infinite number of square triangular numbers; the first few are 0, 1, 36, 1225, 41616, 1413721, 48024900, 1631432881, 55420693056, 1882672131025 . ==Explicit formulas== Write ''N''''k'' for the ''k''th square triangular number, and write ''s''''k'' and ''t''''k'' for the sides of the corresponding square and triangle, so that : Define the ''triangular root'' of a triangular number to be . From this definition and the quadratic formula, Therefore, is triangular if and only if is square, and naturally is square and triangular if and only if is square, i. e., there are numbers and such that . This is an instance of the Pell equation, with n=8. All Pell equations have the trivial solution (1,0), for any n; this solution is called the zeroth, and indexed as . If denotes the k'th non-trivial solution to any Pell equation for a particular n, it can be shown by the method of descent that and . Hence there are an infinity of solutions to any Pell equation for which there is one non-trivial one, which holds whenever n is not a square. The first non-trivial solution when n=8 is easy to find: it is (3,1). A solution to the Pell equation for n=8 yields a square triangular number and its square and triangular roots as follows: and Hence, the first square triangular number, derived from (3,1), is 1, and the next, derived from (17,6) (=6×(3,1)-(1,0)), is 36. The sequences ''N''''k'', ''s''''k'' and ''t''''k'' are the OEIS sequences , , and respectively. In 1778 Leonhard Euler determined the explicit formula〔 〕〔 〕 : The corresponding explicit formulas for ''s''''k'' and ''t''''k'' are 〔 : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「square triangular number」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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