A.J. Meyl proved in 1878 that only three tetrahedral numbers are also perfect squares, namely:
T1 = 1^2 = 1
T2 = 2^2 = 4
T48 = 140^2 = 19600.
The only tetrahedral number that is also a square pyramidal number is 1 (Beukers, 1988), and the only tetrahedral number that is also a perfect cube is 1.
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