How many integers in the range can be expressed as for some real
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Let x = m + k , with m a positive integer and 0 ≤ k < 1 .
Then, ⌊ x 2 ⋅ ⌊ x ⌋ ⌋ = ⌊ ( m 2 + k 2 + 2 m k ) ( m ) ⌋ = m 3 + ⌊ 2 k m 2 + m k 2 ⌋
Let f ( m ) = 2 k m 2 + m k 2 be a parabula with k a parameter. k = 0 is y = 0 . Reminding that the coefficient 2 k fixes the concavity of the conic, let k increase such that the parabula becomes slowly "tighter". Now, focus our attention on x = 2 , for instance, and define A ( 2 , y ) the point of intersection between the parabula and x = 2 . Then, increasing k , the ordinate of A assumes all values among 0 and a "limit" value given from k = 1 .
If k = 1 we get f ( m ) = 2 m 2 + m : this is the function that gives us a "limit" interval for every m . In fact, we are able to get all possible value ϵ from the set: ϵ ∈ { m 3 + 0 , m 3 + 1 , . . . , m 3 + 2 m 2 + m − 1 } exploiting the fact that k is a real number ( m 3 + 2 m 2 + m can't be obtained since k < 1 from hypothesis).
Every set is made of 2 m 2 + m elements. Since 1 2 3 < 2 0 1 7 < 1 3 3 , the answer to our problem is: m = 1 ∑ 1 2 ( 2 m 2 + m ) − 1 0 = 2 ⋅ 6 1 2 ⋅ 1 3 ⋅ 2 5 + 2 1 2 ⋅ 1 3 − 1 0 = 1 3 6 8
− 1 0 since the last 10 number are greater than 2017.