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A000962 A ternary continued fraction.
(Formerly M1473 N0582)
1
1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 5, 15, 32, 99, 210, 650, 1379, 4268, 9055, 28025, 59458, 184021, 390420, 1208340, 2563621, 7934342, 16833545, 52099395, 110534372, 342101079, 725803590 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,5

REFERENCES

D. N. Lehmer, On ternary continued fractions, Tohoku Math. J., 37 (1933), 436-445.

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

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000

_Simon 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.

_Simon Plouffe_, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,7,0,-3,0,1).

FORMULA

G.f.: (-2x^5 + 5x^4 + x^3 - 7x^2 + 1)/(-x^6 + 3x^4 - 7x^2 + 1).

MAPLE

A000962:=(z+1)*(2*z**4-7*z**3+6*z**2+z-1)/(-1+7*z**2-3*z**4+z**6); [Conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

a:= n-> (Matrix([[5, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1]]). Matrix(6, (i, j)-> if (i=j-1) then 1 elif j=1 then [0, 7, 0, -3, 0, 1][i] else 0 fi)^n)[1, 6]: seq (a(n), n=0..25); [From Alois P. Heinz, Aug 26 2008]

MATHEMATICA

CoefficientList[Series[(-2x^5+5x^4+x^3-7x^2+1)/(-x^6+3x^4-7x^2+1), {x, 0, 30}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Apr 10 2012 *)

PROG

(PARI) Vec((-2*x^5+5*x^4+x^3-7*x^2+1)/(-x^6+3*x^4-7*x^2+1)+O(x^99)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 10 2012

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A034499 A006451 A226103 * A118387 A034522 A148339

Adjacent sequences:  A000959 A000960 A000961 * A000963 A000964 A000965

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane.

STATUS

approved

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