Talk:nonhypotenuse number

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nonhypotenuse number

DTLHS (talk) 18:17, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Daniel Shanks introduced the term with the spelling non-hypotenuse number.[1] Several authors copied that term; although they credit Shanks, I think we should consider these uses independent. So this hyphenated version can be attested. I saw only Dobkin & Lipton using the hyphenless spelling (3 times, on page 123 of their article.[2]

1. Daniel Shanks (1975). “Non-hypotenuse numbers”. Fibonacci Quarterly, 13(4), pp. 319–321.
2. David Dobkin and Richard J. Lipton (1980). “Addition Chain Methods for the Evaluation of Specific Polynomials”. SIAM Journal on Computing, 9(1), pp. 121–125.

 --Lambiam 19:14, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

I have added two citations for the non-hyphenated version to the citations page. In addition, On the additive graph generated by a subset of the natural numbers (A thesis by Gregory Costain at McGill University) includes "nonhypotenuse numbers" as en entry in a table of sequences that meet the conditions for a theorem in the paper. I believe this makes this version cited, although the main lemma should probably be the hyphenated version. Kiwima (talk) 22:40, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:55, 12 December 2019 (UTC)