Stellar Number Ia Type 1

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The Regent’s school Pattaya | Mathematics SL Internal Assessment 1 | Stellar Numbers | | Naufal Hakim | 9/20/2011 | This is one of the two Internal assessments that is required as a component for IB Mathematics SL. | Aim In this task you will consider geometric shapes which lead to special numbers. The simplest examples of these are square numbers, 1, 4, 9, 16, which can be represented by squares of side 1, 2, 3 and 4. Background research Triangular number consists of natural numbers and has a set of positive integers. Hence the range of triangular number is from positive 1 to infinity. Natural number is the naturally occurring numbers and used for ordinary counting e.g. 1 pencil , 2 pencils, 3 pencils, and so on. The number from the nth term keeps adding (positive) 1 from the previous term. Stellar numbers could also be referred to star numbers. They are “centered figure number that represents a centered hexagram, such as the one that Chinese checkers is played on”, as described by Wikipedia.org. A hexagram is a 6-pointed shape with equilateral triangles forming its star-like structure fixed to a polygon placed on its center. Both triangular and stellar consist of increasing layers of their respective shapes. These layers increase naturally in number of dots. Each side of the form adds one dot for every increasing layer, for example in the third layer of a triangular number (n=4), there are 7 dots in total whilst previously there are 6 dots in the second layer. The pattern that could be derived from these numbers are found using the arithmetic and geometric sequence theories. Arithmetic sequence refers to a group of numbers where amongst the members, there is a constant difference (d). Geometric sequence on the other hand, has a difference (d) in ratio between the members. However as the sequence of both the triangular and the stellar

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