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Centered cube number

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A centered cube number is a centered figurate number that represents a cube. The centered cube number for n is given by the equation

The first few centered cube numbers are

1, 9, 35, 91, 189, 341, 559, 855, 1241, 1729, 2331, 3059, 3925, 4941, 6119, 7471, 9009, 10745, 12691, 14859, 17261, 19909, 22815, 25991, 29449, 33201, 37259, 41635, 46341, 51389, 56791, 62559, 68705, 75241, 82179, 89531, 97309, 105525

Centered cube numbers have applications in modelling the shells of atoms.