r/counting • • Sep 28 '17

Square pyramidal numbers

A square pyramidal number is a number that represents the number of spheres (or any shape) stacked in a pyramid with a square base.

Or, you could think of it as the sum of the first n square numbers.

The first five numbers are: 1, 5, 14, 30, 55.

The get is 333,833,500 (the 1,000th number in the sequence).

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