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A001631 Tetranacci numbers: a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) + a(n-3) +a(n-4).
(Formerly M1081 N0410)
4
0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 27, 52, 100, 193, 372, 717, 1382, 2664, 5135, 9898, 19079, 36776, 70888, 136641, 263384, 507689, 978602, 1886316, 3635991, 7008598, 13509507, 26040412, 50194508, 96753025, 186497452, 359485397, 692930382, 1335666256, 2574579487 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,6

REFERENCES

W. C. Lynch, The t-Fibonacci numbers and polyphase sorting, Fib. Quart., 8 (1970), pp. 6ff.

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.

Harvey P. Dale, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000

FORMULA

G.f.: ((x-1)*x^2)/(x^4+x^3+x^2+x-1) [From Harvey P. Dale, Oct 21 2011]

MAPLE

A001631:=(-1+z)/(-1+z+z**2+z**3+z**4); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

a:= n-> (Matrix([[0, -1, 2, -1]]). Matrix(4, (i, j)-> `if` (i=j-1 or j=1, 1, 0))^n)[1, 1]: seq (a(n), n=0..35); # Alois P. Heinz, Aug 01 2008

MATHEMATICA

LinearRecurrence[{1, 1, 1, 1}, {0, 0, 1, 0}, 100] (* From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jul 01 2011 *)

CoefficientList[Series[((-1+x) x^2)/(-1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4), {x, 0, 50}], x] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Oct 21 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

First differences of A000078.

Sequence in context: A005594 A123196 A079968 * A108758 A018085 A167751

Adjacent sequences:  A001628 A001629 A001630 * A001632 A001633 A001634

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Jul 31 2000

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