Pyramidal numbers


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(Math.) certain series of figurate numbers expressing the number of balls or points that may be arranged in the form of pyramids. Thus 1, 4, 10, 20, 35, etc., are triangular pyramidal numbers; and 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, etc., are square pyramidal numbers.

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Nichomachus also considered the connections between numbers and three-dimensional geometrical patterns, such as the cubic numbers and the pyramidal numbers. The latter had practical use in the 18th and 19th centuries in counting the number of cannonballs in a pyramidal stack.
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In this paper we have defined and investigated the s-consecutive, s-reversed, s-mirror and s-symmetric sequences of Pyramidal numbers (Triangular numbers of dimension 3.) using Maple 6.
In this paper we consider a figurate sequence of Triangular numbers of dimension 3, also called as Pyramidal numbers.
We can obtain the first k terms of Pyramidal numbers in Maple as; > t := n->(1/6)*n*(n+1)*(n+2): > first :+ k -> seq (t(n), n=1 ...
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On the number of numbers with a given digit sum
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