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A000561 Number of discordant permutations.
(Formerly M4245 N1773)
3
6, 44, 145, 336, 644, 1096, 1719, 2540, 3586, 4884, 6461, 8344, 10560, 13136, 16099, 19476, 23294, 27580, 32361, 37664, 43516, 49944, 56975, 64636, 72954, 81956, 91669, 102120, 113336, 125344, 138171, 151844, 166390, 181836, 198209, 215536, 233844, 253160, 273511, 294924, 317426, 341044 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

3,1

REFERENCES

J. Riordan, Discordant permutations, Scripta Math., 20 (1954), 14-23.

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

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.: -(4x^3 - 5x^2 -20x -6)/(x-1)^4 (Jeffrey Shallit).

a(n)=(9/2)n^3-(45/2)n^2+29n.

MAPLE

f := n->9/2*n^3-45/2*n^2+29*n; seq(f(n), n=0..50);

A000561:=-(-6-20*z-5*z**2+4*z**3)/(z-1)**4; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A078810 A114074 A075337 * A091162 A156002 A091163

Adjacent sequences:  A000558 A000559 A000560 * A000562 A000563 A000564

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms, formula and Maple code from Barbara Haas Margolius (margolius(AT)math.csuohio.edu) 2/17/01

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