Truncated Tetrahedral Number
A figurate number constructed by taking the
th tetrahedral
number and removing the
th tetrahedral
number from each of the four corners,
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(1)
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(2)
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The first few are 1, 16, 68, 180, 375, ... (OEIS A005906). The generating function for the truncated tetrahedral numbers is
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(3)
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0, 1, 3, 7, 15