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Centered square number

In elementary number theory, a centered square number is a centered figurate number that gives the number of dots in a square with a dot in the center and all other dots surrounding the center dot in successive square layers. That is, each centered square number equals the number of dots within a given city block distance of the center dot on a regular square lattice. While centered square numbers, like figurate numbers in general, have few if any direct practical applications, they are sometimes studied in recreational mathematics for their elegant geometric and arithmetic properties.

The figures for the first four centered square numbers are shown below:

 ${\displaystyle C_{4,1}=1}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,2}=5}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,3}=13}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,4}=25}$

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Relationships with other figurate numbers

The nth centered square number is given by the formula[notation clarification needed]

${\displaystyle C_{4,n}=n^{2}+(n-1)^{2}.\,}$

In other words, a centered square number is the sum of two consecutive square numbers. The following pattern demonstrates this formula:

 ${\displaystyle C_{4,1}=0+1}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,2}=1+4}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,3}=4+9}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,4}=9+16}$

The formula can also be expressed as

${\displaystyle C_{4,n}={(2n-1)^{2}+1 \over 2};}$

that is, n th centered square number is half of n th odd square number plus one, as illustrated below:

 ${\displaystyle C_{4,1}=(1+1)/2}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,2}=(9+1)/2}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,3}=(25+1)/2}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,4}=(49+1)/2}$

Like all centered polygonal numbers, centered square numbers can also be expressed in terms of triangular numbers:

${\displaystyle C_{4,n}=1+4\,T_{n-1},\,}$

where

${\displaystyle T_{n}={n(n+1) \over 2}={n^{2}+n \over 2}={n+1 \choose 2}}$

is the nth triangular number. This can be easily seen by removing the center dot and dividing the rest of the figure into four triangles, as below:

 ${\displaystyle C_{4,1}=1}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,2}=1+4\times 1}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,3}=1+4\times 3}$ ${\displaystyle C_{4,4}=1+4\times 6.}$

The difference between two consecutive octahedral numbers is a centered square number (Conway and Guy, p.50).

Properties

The first few centered square numbers are:

1, 5, 13, 25, 41, 61, 85, 113, 145, 181, 221, 265, 313, 365, 421, 481, 545, 613, 685, 761, 841, 925, 1013, 1105, 1201, 1301, 1405, 1513, 1625, 1741, 1861, 1985, 2113, 2245, 2381, 2521, 2665, 2813, 2965, 3121, 3281, 3445, 3613, 3785, 3961, 4141, 4325, … (sequence A001844 in the OEIS).

All centered square numbers are odd, and in base 10 one can notice the one's digits follows the pattern 1-5-3-5-1.

All centered square numbers and their divisors have a remainder of one when divided by four. Hence all centered square numbers and their divisors end with digits 1 or 5 in base 6, 8 or 12.

Every centered square number except 1 is the third term of a leg–hypotenuse Pythagorean triple (for example, 3-4-5, 5-12-13).

References

• Alfred, U. (1962), "n and n + 1 consecutive integers with equal sums of squares", Mathematics Magazine, 35 (3): 155–164, JSTOR 2688938, MR 1571197.
• Apostol, Tom M. (1976), Introduction to analytic number theory, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, New York-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90163-3, MR 0434929, Zbl 0335.10001.
• Beiler, A. H. (1964), Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, New York: Dover, p. 125.
• Conway, John H.; Guy, Richard K. (1996), The Book of Numbers, New York: Copernicus, pp. 41–42, ISBN 0-387-97993-X, MR 1411676.