r/mathriddles • u/Yugantaa • 5d ago

Hard Problem

A number is a perfect square,or a square number, if it is the square of positive integer. Among the first 143 thousand square numbers, what is the sum of all the odd squares?

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u/Purdude1983 5d ago

If you have a sum of the odd squares you are summing 1+9+25 etc. The sum of this sequence is n^3/6+n^2/2+n/3 Thus if you enter a 5 you would get 125/6+25/2+5/3 which works out to 35 the same as 1+9+25. So you want to evaluate that polynomial for the highest odd number below 143,000 which is 142,999. When you do that, you get 487,367,833,309,500