Talk:nonhypotenuse number

RFV discussion: December 2019
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]
 * (1975). “Non-hypotenuse numbers”. Fibonacci Quarterly, 13(4), pp. 319–321.
 * and (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)