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A000297 (n+1)*(n+3)*(n+8)/6.
(Formerly M3434 N1393)
7
0, 4, 12, 25, 44, 70, 104, 147, 200, 264, 340, 429, 532, 650, 784, 935, 1104, 1292, 1500, 1729, 1980, 2254, 2552, 2875, 3224, 3600, 4004, 4437, 4900, 5394, 5920, 6479, 7072, 7700, 8364, 9065, 9804, 10582, 11400, 12259, 13160, 14104, 15092, 16125, 17204 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

-1,2

COMMENTS

If Y and Z are 2-blocks of an n-set X then, for n>=4, a(n-5) is the number of (n-3)-subsets of X intersecting both Y and Z. - Milan R. Janjic (agnus(AT)blic.net), Nov 09 2007

REFERENCES

P. Erdos, R. K. Guy and J. W. Moon, On refining partitions, J. London Math. Soc., 9 (1975), 565-570.

J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, p. 150.

A. Scott, T. Delaney and V. E. Hoggatt, Jr., The tribonacci sequence, Fib. Quart., 15 (1977), 193-200.

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

Milan Janjic, Two Enumerative Functions

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.: (2-x)^2 / (1-x)^4.

a(n)=sum(n*(k+1)/3,k=3..n, n>=2 - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jan 29 2008

MAPLE

A000297:=(z-2)**2/(z-1)**4; [S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

for n from 2 to 46 do printf(`%d, `, sum(n*(k+1)/3, k=3..n)) od: - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jan 29 2008

MATHEMATICA

Rest[FoldList[Plus, -1, Rest[FoldList[Plus, -1, Range[2, 46]]]]] [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 11 2009]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A116668 A008186 A008264 * A078618 A062883 A008176

Adjacent sequences:  A000294 A000295 A000296 * A000298 A000299 A000300

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Sep 08 2000

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