Idoneal number
In mathematics, Euler's idoneal numbers are the positive integers D such that any integer expressible in only one way as x2 ± Dy2 is a prime power or twice a prime power. In particular, a number that has two distinct representations as a sum of two squares Euler's [factorization method|is composite]. Every idoneal number generates a set containing infinitely many primes and missing infinitely many other primes.
Definition
A positive integer n is idoneal if and only if it cannot be written as ab + bc + ac for distinct positive integers a, b, and c.It is sufficient to consider the set ; if all these numbers are of the form,, or 2s for some integer s, where is a prime, then is idoneal.
Conjecturally complete listing
The 65 idoneal numbers found by Leonhard Euler and Carl [Friedrich Gauss] and conjectured to be the only such numbers areResults of Peter J. Weinberger from 1973 imply that at most two other idoneal numbers exist, and that the list above is complete if the generalized [Riemann hypothesis] holds.