OFFSET
2,2
REFERENCES
Cornelius Lanczos, Applied Analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1956, p. 516.
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
Cornelius Lanczos, Applied Analysis. (Annotated scans of selected pages)
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (12,-48,64).
FORMULA
From Amiram Eldar, Feb 17 2023: (Start)
Sum_{n>=2} 1/a(n) = 12*log(3) - 64*log(2)/3 + 8/3.
Sum_{n>=2} (-1)^n/a(n) = (8/3)*(arctan(1/2) + 4*log(5/4) - 1). (End)
MAPLE
A002698:=(-1-6*z+8*z**2)/(4*z-1)**3; # [Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation]
MATHEMATICA
Table[n*(2n-3)*2^(2n-5), {n, 2, 30}] (* Amiram Eldar, Feb 17 2023 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved