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A001636 A Fielder sequence: a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) - a(n-7), n >= 8.
(Formerly M0763 N0290)
1
0, 2, 3, 6, 10, 17, 21, 38, 57, 92, 143, 225, 351, 555, 868, 1366, 2142, 3365, 5282, 8296, 13023, 20451, 32108, 50417, 79160, 124295, 195159, 306431, 481139, 755462, 1186184, 1862486, 2924375, 4591702, 7209646, 11320209, 17774393, 27908418, 43820325 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

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).

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

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..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.

FORMULA

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

a(n)=a(n-2)+a(n-3)+a(n-4)+a(n-5)+a(n-6), n>=7.

MAPLE

A001636:=-z*(2+3*z+4*z**2+5*z**3+6*z**4)/(z+1)/(z**5+z**3+z-1); [Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

(Maple) a := n -> (Matrix([[6, -1$4, 4, 5]]). Matrix(7, (i, j)-> if (i=j-1) then 1 elif j=1 then [1$2, 0$4, -1][i] else 0 fi)^n)[1, 1] ; seq (a(n), n=1..38); [From Alois P. Heinz, Aug 01 2008]

MATHEMATICA

LinearRecurrence[{1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1}, {0, 2, 3, 6, 10, 17, 21}, 50] (* T. D. Noe, Aug 09 2012 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<0, 0, polcoeff(x^2*(2+x+x^2+x^3+x^4-6*x^5)/(1-x-x^2+x^7)+x*O(x^n), n))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A013983.

Sequence in context: A066895 A105075 A140669 * A036588 A099517 A026647

Adjacent sequences:  A001633 A001634 A001635 * A001637 A001638 A001639

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane.

EXTENSIONS

Edited by Michael Somos, Feb 17, 2002

STATUS

approved

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