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A002179 Numerators of Cotesian numbers (not in lowest terms): A002176*C(n,2).
(Formerly M2921 N1172)
5
0, 1, 3, 12, 50, 27, 1323, -928, 1080, -48525, -3237113, -7587864, -31268252574, -770720657, -232936065, -179731134720, -542023437008852, -3212744374395, -926840515700222955, -389358194177500, -17858352159793110 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
2,3
REFERENCES
W. W. Johnson, On Cotesian numbers: their history, computation and values to n=20, Quart. J. Pure Appl. Math., 46 (1914), 52-65.
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
W. M. Johnson, On Cotesian numbers: their history, computation and values to n=20, Quart. J. Pure Appl. Math., 46 (1914), 52-65. [Annotated scanned copy]
MATHEMATICA
cn[n_, 0] := Sum[n^j*StirlingS1[n, j]/(j+1), {j, 1, n+1}]/n!; cn[n_, n_] := cn[n, 0]; cn[n_, k_] := 1/n!*Binomial[n, k]*Sum[n^(j+m)*StirlingS1[k, j]*StirlingS1[n-k, m]/((m+1)*Binomial[j+m+1, m+1]), {m, 1, n}, {j, 1, k+1}]; A002176[n_] := LCM @@ Table[Denominator[cn[n, k]], {k, 0, n}]; a[2] = 0; a[n_] := A002176[n-1]*cn[n-1, 2]; Table[a[n], {n, 2, 22}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 08 2013 *)
PROG
(PARI) cn(n)= mattranspose(matinverseimage( matrix(n+1, n+1, k, m, (m-1)^(k-1)), matrix(n+1, 1, k, m, n^(k-1)/k)))[ 1, ] \\ vector of quadrature formula coefficients via matrix solution
(PARI) ncn(n)= denominator(cn(n))*cn(n); nk(n, k)= if(k<0 || k>n, 0, ncn(n)[ k+1 ]); A002177(n)= nk(n, 2)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A151176 A151177 A344419 * A224659 A034541 A180879
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Michael Somos
STATUS
approved

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