Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:34:24 +1300 From: "Sean A. Irvine" I have computed the first 55 terms of A000135. The terms seem to have good agreement with exp(x^(3/4)) as shown in the graph. Perhaps this is a known result, I don't have access to the Agarwala & Auluck reference so cannot check. (Please note, the values of a(n) below could be slightly in error for larger values of n, since I used ordinary double precision arithmetic for computing the sums). n a(n) exp(n^(3/4)) 1 1 2.71828 2 2 5.37518 3 6 9.77186 4 13 16.9188 5 24 28.3238 6 42 46.2314 7 73 73.9595 8 125 116.376 9 204 180.576 10 324 276.833 11 511 419.937 12 801 631.072 13 1228 940.419 14 1856 1390.79 15 2780 2042.63 16 4135 2980.96 17 6084 4324.9 18 8873 6240.73 19 12847 8959.76 20 18481 12802.8 21 26416 18213.1 22 37473 25802 23 52871 36409.2 24 74216 51186.1 25 103596 71706.7 26 143841 100118 27 198839 139339 28 273654 193336 29 374987 267478 30 511735 369022 31 695559 507757 32 941932 696862 33 1271139 954042 34 1709474 1.30304e+06 35 2291195 1.77565e+06 36 3061385 2.41434e+06 37 4078152 3.2758e+06 38 5416322 4.43551e+06 39 7173114 5.99386e+06 40 9473896 8.08414e+06 41 12479712 1.08831e+07 42 16396918 1.46246e+07 43 21490368 1.9618e+07 44 28098433 2.62716e+07 45 36652969 3.51236e+07 46 47704268 4.68827e+07 47 61951295 6.24808e+07 48 80282074 8.31417e+07 49 103822515 1.10471e+08 50 133995350 1.4657e+08 51 172598882 1.94193e+08 52 221901148 2.56934e+08 53 284757153 3.39491e+08 54 364757460 4.47987e+08 55 466411124 5.90399e+08