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.