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A000968 Sum of odd Fermat coefficients rounded to nearest integer.
(Formerly M1176 N0452)
0
1, 1, 2, 4, 9, 20, 46, 105, 246, 583, 1393, 3355, 8133, 19825, 48554, 119412, 294761, 729980, 1813107, 4515225, 11271198, 28196896, 70679137, 177487714, 446446560, 1124706145, 2837445500, 7167878628, 18129622761, 45907772900, 116372614251 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

P. A. Piza, Fermat coefficients, Math. Mag., 27 (1954), 141-146.

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).

FORMULA

Following Piza's definition for the Fermat coefficients: (n:c)=binomial(2n-c, c-1)/c, a(n)= Round( sum_{c<=n & c odd} (n:c) ) - Pab Ter (pabrlos2(AT)yahoo.com), Oct 13 2005

EXAMPLE

n sum_{c<=n.&.c.odd} (n:c).....a(n)

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.1........1......................1

.2........1......................1

.3........2......................2

.4........4+1/3..................4

MAPLE

FermatCoeff:=(n, c)->binomial(2*n-c, c-1)/c:seq(round(add(FermatCoeff(n, 2*r+1), r=0..floor(n/2))), n=1..40); (Pab Ter)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A057417 A191653 A191827 * A005908 A206119 A085748

Adjacent sequences:  A000965 A000966 A000967 * A000969 A000970 A000971

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Pab Ter (pabrlos2(AT)yahoo.com), Oct 13 2005

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