A Zeisel number, named after Helmut Zeisel, is a square-free integer k with at least three prime factors which fall into the pattern
where a and b are some integer constants and x is the index number of each prime factor in the factorization, sorted from lowest to highest. For the purpose of determining Zeisel numbers, . The first few Zeisel numbers are
To give an example, 1729 is a Zeisel number with the constants a = 1 and b = 6, its factors being 7, 13 and 19, falling into the pattern
1729 is an example for Carmichael numbers of the kind , which satisfies the pattern with a= 1 and b = 6n, so that every Carmichael number of the form (6n+1)(12n+1)(18n+1) is a Zeisel number.