30 Jan
2014
30 Jan
'14
3:16 a.m.
David Wilson: "The next element would the largest value which is neither a fourth power nor a fourth power + prime. This number will be very large. Looks like a real programming challenge." According to Alessandro Zaccagnini (via John Robertson, 1999), most squares will not be a sum of a 4th power and a prime. See the last paragraph here: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=1676582