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A000128 A nonlinear binomial sum.
(Formerly M1120 N0428)
1
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 58, 105, 185, 319, 541, 906, 1503, 2476, 4058, 6626, 10790, 17537, 28464, 46155, 74791, 121137, 196139, 317508, 513901, 831686, 1345888, 2177900, 3524140, 5702419, 9226966, 14929821, 24157253, 39087571, 63245353, 102333486 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

D. A. Lind, On a class of nonlinear binomial sums, Fib. Quart., 3 (1965), 292-298.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..201

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

FORMULA

G.f.: (1 - 2 x + x^2 + x^3 ) / ( 1 - x - x^2 ) ( 1 - x )^3.

Fib(n+4) - n(n+1)/2 - 3, with Fib(n) = A000045(n). - Ralf Stephan, Aug 19 2004

MAPLE

A000128:=(1-2*z+z**2+z**3)/(z**2+z-1)/(z-1)**3; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

CROSSREFS

Differences are A000126.

Sequence in context: A000127 A133552 A174439 * A106399 A007800 A102726

Adjacent sequences:  A000125 A000126 A000127 * A000129 A000130 A000131

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Michel ten Voorde (seqfan(AT)tenvoorde.org) Oct 06 2002

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