Fun with num3ers
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Tetrahedral numbers
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TetrahedralNumber.html
Triangular Number
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularNumber.html
Polygonal Number
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolygonalNumber.html
Tetrahedral numbers have the form n(n+1)(n+2)/6 and
triangular numbers have the form n(n+1)/2.
Show that at least one-third of the tetrahedral numbers are also polygonal numbers.
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