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A002021 Pile of coconuts problem: (n-1)(n^n - 1), n even; n^n - n + 1, n odd.
(Formerly M3114 N1262)
2
1, 3, 25, 765, 3121, 233275, 823537, 117440505, 387420481, 89999999991, 285311670601, 98077104930805, 302875106592241, 144456088732254195 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

Problem 3242, Amer. Math. Monthly, 35 (1928), 47-48.

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

Ben Ames Williams, Coconuts Problem

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002022, A006091.

Sequence in context: A127231 A062411 A136516 * A012764 A101733 A094815

Adjacent sequences:  A002018 A002019 A002020 * A002022 A002023 A002024

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

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