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A000517 Number of permutations of length n with exactly three valleys.
(Formerly M5431 N2360)
7
272, 7936, 137216, 1841152, 21253376, 222398464, 2174832640, 20261765120, 182172651520, 1594922762240, 13684856848384, 115620218667008, 965271355195392, 7984436548730880 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

7,1

REFERENCES

F. N. David, M. G. Kendall and D. E. Barton, Symmetric Function and Allied Tables, Cambridge, 1966, p. 261.

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

R. G. Rieper and M. Zeleke, Valleyless Sequences

FORMULA

G.f. 16x^7(17-184x+636x^2-720x^3)/((1-2x)^4*(1-4x)^3*(1-6x)^2*(1-8x)). - Ralf Stephan (ralf(AT)ark.in-berlin.de), Sep 18 2003

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000431, A000487.

Sequence in context: A178268 A205345 A141546 * A168372 A023907 A035842

Adjacent sequences:  A000514 A000515 A000516 * A000518 A000519 A000520

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Ralf Stephan (ralf(AT)ark.in-berlin.de), Sep 18 2003

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