Engler — Figurate Numbers. 



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For 6^=3, 



Table 28. 

 which is identical with Table 19. 



The set of series included in Table 21 is of peculiar inter- 

 est because it contains the familiar sets of series known 

 as polygonal numbers and pyramidal numbers. 



Polygonal numbers. These are the numbers in the sec- 

 ond row of Table 21, for (i=successively 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . 



They are called polygonal because the numbers in the 

 series correspond to the numbers of points or dots which 



* See "Ueber polydimensionalen Zahlenfiguren", by Th. Harmuth, Archiv 

 der Mathematik und Physik, Series I, Vol. LXIX, pp. 90-107. 



