Every positive integer is a sum of at most n + 2 centered n-gonal numbers
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Benjamin Lee Warren
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Miroslav Kureš
Abstract
It is proved that every positive integer can be expressed as a sum of at most n + 2 centered n-gonal numbers. Some specifying and generalizing results are added to this.
(Communicated by István Gaál)
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