From: NoJunkMail@this.address (Gerry Myerson) Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Waring's Problem for fifth powers. Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 16:21:09 +1100 In article <882237265.1620836354@dejanews.com>, ajw01@uow.edu.au wrote: > Has anyone done any numerical work on Waring's > Problem for fifth or higher powers? {snip!] > As you can see g(5)=37 almost certainly and G(5) <=11 > seems very likely. See Jing-run Chen, Waring's problem for g(5) = 37, Sci. Sinica 13 (1964) 1547--1568, MR 31 #135, for a proof that g(5) = 37. It seems this also appeared as Chinese Math Acta 6 (1965) 105--127. I'll bet there's information out there about G(5) as well but I have no references handy. Gerry Myerson (gerry@mpce.mq.edu.au)