Appendix I: Why Were 35, 91, and 95 Treated Differently? It's intriguing to consider the following table: Double-Triangular and Related Numbers k T = (k+2)(k+3) Q = 6k+1 T-Q TQ --- -------------- ---------- ------ ----- 1 12* 7 5 35 2 20* 13 7 91 3 30* 19 11 209 4 42* [25] 17 5 56* 31 [25] 6 72 37 (35) 7 90 43 47 8 110 [49] 61 9 132 (55) (77) 10 156 61 (95) 11 182 67 12 210 73 13 240 (85) 14 272 (91) 15 306 97 16 342 103 18 420 109 Notice that the values of TQ less than 100 are precisely those that are treated by arithmetic-harmonic decomposition in the 2/n table. Also, I've placed parentheses around the composite values in the Q and T-Q columns, with square brackets to indicate squares. Notice that the numbers 35, 91, and 95 appear, as do the corresponding values of 2a-p, namely, the squares 25, 49, and 25 respectively. Also, the number 55 appears, which was treated in a slightly unusual way in the 2/n table by being sieved out by the larger of its two divisors, rather than the smaller. The only other composites in these columns are 77 and 85, which don't seem to have been treated in any unusual way in the 2/n table. By the way, the numbers in the T column, which are double-triangular numbers, seem to have been favorite choices for "a". Each value marked with asterisk was used in the 2/n table as an "a" value at least once.