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A000704 Number of degree-n even permutations of order dividing 2.
(Formerly M3511 N1427)
13
1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 16, 46, 106, 316, 1324, 5356, 18316, 63856, 272416, 1264264, 5409496, 22302736, 101343376, 507711376, 2495918224, 11798364736, 58074029056 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,5

COMMENTS

Number of odd partitions of an n-element set avoiding the pattern 123 (see Goyt paper). - Ralf Stephan, May 08 2007

REFERENCES

L. Moser and M. Wyman, On solutions of x^d = 1 in symmetric groups, Canad. J. Math., 7 (1955), 159-168.

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

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..200

A. M. Goyt, Avoidance of partitions of a 3-element set

FORMULA

E.g.f.: e^x cosh ( x^2 / 2 ).

a(n) = sum[i=0,floor(n/4), C(n,4i)*(4i-1)!! ]. - Ralf Stephan, May 08 2007 [Corrected by Sean A. Irvine 1 Mar 2011]

MATHEMATICA

f[n_] := Sum[(4i - 1)!! Binomial[n, 4i], {i, 0, n/4}]; Array[f, 22, 0] (* RGWv *)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A134139 A097125 A159940 * A007315 A055342 A174836

Adjacent sequences:  A000701 A000702 A000703 * A000705 A000706 A000707

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com) and J. H. Conway (conway(AT)math.princeton.edu)

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