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A001634 a(n) = a(n-2) + a(n-3) + a(n-4).
(Formerly M0746 N0281)
2
0, 2, 3, 6, 5, 11, 14, 22, 30, 47, 66, 99, 143, 212, 308, 454, 663, 974, 1425, 2091, 3062, 4490, 6578, 9643, 14130, 20711, 30351, 44484, 65192, 95546, 140027, 205222, 300765, 440795, 646014, 946782, 1387574, 2033591, 2980370, 4367947, 6401535, 9381908 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

REFERENCES

E.-B. Escott, Reply to Query 1484, L'Interm\'{e}diaire des Math\'{e}maticiens, 8 (1901), 63-64.

Fielder, Daniel C.; Special integer sequences controlled by three parameters. Fibonacci Quart 6 1968 64-70.

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..500

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.

FORMULA

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

MAPLE

A001634:=-z*(2+3*z+4*z**2)/(1+z)/(z**3+z-1); [S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

(Maple) a := n -> (Matrix([[0, 4, -1, -1]]). Matrix(4, (i, j)-> if (i=j-1) then 1 elif j=1 then [0, 1, 1, 1][i] else 0 fi)^n)[1, 1] ; seq (a(n), n=0..40); [From Alois P. Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Aug 01 2008]

MATHEMATICA

LinearRecurrence[{0, 1, 1, 1}, {0, 2, 3, 6}, 100] (* From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jul 01 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<0, 0, polcoeff(x*(2+3*x+4*x^2)/(1-x^2-x^3-x^4)+x*O(x^n), n))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A013979.

Sequence in context: A133477 A039653 A106379 * A172989 A095113 A002517

Adjacent sequences:  A001631 A001632 A001633 * A001635 A001636 A001637

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

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

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