ACTA MATHEMATICA
UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE




Vol. LXXVII, 1 (2008)
p. 129 - 140

Counting all equilateral triangles in {0, 1, ..., n}3

E. J. Ionascu

Received: January 3, 2007;  Accepted: September 21, 2007



Abstract.  We describe a procedure of counting all equilateral triangles in the three dimensional space whose coordinates are allowed only in the set {0, 1, ..., n}3. This sequence is denoted here by  ET(n) and it has the entry A102698 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences". The procedure is implemented in Maple and its main idea is based on the results in [3]. Using this we calculated the values ET(n) for n = 1 ... 55 extending previous calculations known for n £ 34. Some facts and conjectures about this sequence are stated. The main conjecture raised here is that
limn ® ¥((ln ET(n)) / (ln n + 1)) exists.

Keywords:  diophantine equations; integers.

AMS Subject classification: Primary:  11B99;   Secondary: 11D09, 11C08.


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