Star numbers are figurate numbers (see picture aside)
defined as
. They coincide with centered dodecagonal numbers.
Three formulas involving star numbers:
The first star numbers are
1, 13, 37, 73, 121, 181, 253, 337, 433, 541, 661, 793, 937, 1093 more terms
Pictorial representation of remainders (mod 2, 3, ...,11) frequency. For a table of values and more details
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A graph displaying how many star numbers are multiples of the primes
p from 2 to 71. In black the ideal line 1/
p.