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A002309 Sum of fourth powers of odd numbers.
(Formerly M5359 N2327)
2
1, 82, 707, 3108, 9669, 24310, 52871, 103496, 187017, 317338, 511819, 791660, 1182285, 1713726, 2421007, 3344528, 4530449, 6031074, 7905235, 10218676, 13044437, 16463238, 20563863, 25443544, 31208345, 37973546, 45864027, 55014652, 65570653, 77688014 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

J. L. Bailey, Jr., A table to facilitate the fitting of certain logistic curves, Annals Math. Stat., 2 (1931), 355-359.

F. E. Croxton and D. J. Cowden, Applied General Statistics. 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1955, p. 742.

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=1..1000

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

a(n)=(48*n^5-40*n^3+7*n)/15. - Ralf Stephan (ralf(AT)ark.in-berlin.de), Jan 29 2003

a(1)=1, a(2)=82, a(3)=707, a(4)=3108, a(5)=9669, a(6)=24310, a(n)= 6*a(n-1)- 15*a(n-2)+20*a(n-3)-15*a(n-4)+6*a(n-5)-a(n-6) [From Harvey P. Dale, Oct 24 2011]

MAPLE

A002309:=(1+76*z+230*z**2+76*z**3+z**4)/(z-1)**6; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

MATHEMATICA

Table[(48*n^5 - 40*n^3 + 7*n)/15, {n, 0, 40}] - Stefan Steinerberger (stefan.steinerberger(AT)gmail.com), Apr 10 2006

s = 0; lst = {s}; Do[s += n^4; AppendTo[lst, s], {n, 1, 60, 2}]; lst [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 12 2009]

Accumulate[Range[1, 63, 2]^4] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Oct 24 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002593.

Sequence in context: A082972 A031422 A186688 * A128959 A173356 A083386

Adjacent sequences:  A002306 A002307 A002308 * A002310 A002311 A002312

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

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