Centered cube number

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35 points in a body-centered cubic lattice, forming two cubical layers around a central point

A centered cube number is a centered figurate number that counts the number of points in a three-
dimensional pattern formed by a point surrounded by concentric cubical layers of points,
with i 2 points on the square faces of the i-th layer. Equivalently, it is the number of points in a body-
centered cubic pattern within a cube that has n + 1 points along each of its edges.

The first few centered cube numbers are

1, 9, 35, 91, 189, 341, 559, 855, 1241, 1729, 2331, 3059, 3925, 4941, 6119, 7471, 9009, ...
(sequence A005898 in the OEIS).

Contents

1 Formulas
2 Properties

3 See also

4 References

5 External links

Formulas
The centered cube number for a pattern with n concentric layers around the central point is given by
the formula[1]

The same number can also be expressed as a trapezoidal number (difference of

two triangular numbers), or a sum of consecutive numbers, as[2]

Properties
Because of the factorization , it is impossible for a centered cube number
to be a prime number.[3] The only centered cube number that is also a square number is 9.[4]
[5]

See also
Cube number

References
1. Jump up^ Deza, Elena; Deza, Michel (2012), Figurate Numbers, World Scientific, pp. 121
123, ISBN 9789814355483.
2. Jump up^ Lanski, Charles (2005), Concepts in Abstract Algebra, American Mathematical
Society, p. 22, ISBN 9780821874288.

3. Jump up^ "Sloane's A005898". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS
Foundation.

4. Jump up^ Stroeker, R. J. (1995), "On the sum of consecutive cubes being a perfect
square", Compositio Mathematica, 97 (12): 295307, MR 1355130.

5. Jump up^ O'Shea, Owen; Dudley, Underwood (2007), The Magic Numbers of the Professor,
MAA Spectrum, Mathematical Association of America, p. 17, ISBN 9780883855577.

External links
Weisstein, Eric W. "Centered Cube Number". MathWorld.