login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.
Logo

Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A000596 Central factorial numbers.
(Formerly M3686 N1505)
2
4, 49, 273, 1023, 3003, 7462, 16422, 32946, 61446, 108031, 180895, 290745, 451269, 679644, 997084, 1429428, 2007768, 2769117, 3757117, 5022787, 6625311 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

3,1

REFERENCES

J. Riordan, Combinatorial Identities, Wiley, 1968, p. 217.

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.

Index entries for sequences related to factorial numbers

FORMULA

a(n) = 1/360*n*(n-1)*(n-2)*(2*n-1)*(2*n-3)*(5*n+1)

MAPLE

A000596:=-(4+21*z+14*z**2+z**3)/(z-1)**7; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

MATHEMATICA

f[k_] := k^2; t[n_] := Table[f[k], {k, 1, n}]

a[n_] := SymmetricPolynomial[2, t[n]]

Table[a[n], {n, 2, 32}]  (* A000596 *)

(* Clark Kimberling, Dec 31 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

a(n+1/2) = 1/16*A001823(n)

Column 2 of triangle A008955.

Sequence in context: A078187 A100256 A163944 * A113525 A064751 A045787

Adjacent sequences:  A000593 A000594 A000595 * A000597 A000598 A000599

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
Recent Additions | More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement .

Last modified February 15 10:28 EST 2012. Contains 205763 sequences.