Sunday, February 13, 2011

Tetrahedral numbers

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TetrahedralNumber.html

Triangular Number

Polygonal Number


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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