In mathematics, a stella octangula number is a figurate number based on the stella octangula, of the form n(2n2 − 1).
The sequence of stella octangula numbers is
There are only two positive square stella octangula numbers, 1 and 9653449 = 31072 = (13 × 239)2, corresponding to n = 1 and n = 169 respectively. The elliptic curve describing the square stella octangula numbers,
may be placed in the equivalent Weierstrass form
by the change of variables x = 2m, y = 2n. Because the two factors n and 2n2 − 1 of the square number m2 are relatively prime, they must each be squares themselves, and the second change of variables and leads to Ljunggren's equation