Prove that every positive integer is the sum of at most 3 triangular numbers (proven by gauss :) don't cheat :) And don't feel bad if you can't get it, Gauss didn't prove this until he turned 6

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Anonymous Wed Aug 5 09:37:02 2020 No.11976784 [Reply] [Original]

Prove that every positive integer is the sum of at most 3 triangular numbers (proven by gauss :) don't cheat :) And don't feel bad if you can't get it, Gauss didn't prove this until he turned 6

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 09:40:09 2020 No.11976796 >>11976784 Let n be a positive integer. Assume n can be written as a sum of 4 triangular numbers. By a theorem of Gauss, this is a contradiction. Therefore every positive integer is a sum of at most 3 triangular numbers. This completes the proof.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 09:43:26 2020 No.11976812 >>11976784 stop smiling at me like some faggot

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