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A002843 Number of partitions of n into parts 1/2, 3/4, 7/8, etc.
(Formerly M1072 N0405)
1
1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 24, 43, 78, 141, 253, 456, 820, 1472, 2645, 4749, 8523, 15299, 27456, 49267, 88407, 158630, 284622, 510683, 916271, 1643963, 2949570, 5292027, 9494758, 17035112, 30563634, 54835835, 98383803, 176515310, 316694823 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

The g.f. (z**2+z+1)*(z-1)**2/(1-2*z-z**3+3*z**4) conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation is wrong.

Also number of compositions (a_1,a_2,...) of n with each a_i <= 2*a_(i-1). [From Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Dec 02 2009]

REFERENCES

Minc, H.; A problem in partitions: Enumeration of elements of a given degree in the free commutative entropic cyclic groupoid. Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. (2) 11 1958/1959 223-224.

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

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

Row sums of A049286 and A047913. [From Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Dec 02 2009]

EXAMPLE

A straightforward partition problem: 1=1/2 + 1/2 and there is no other partition of 1, so a(1)=1.

a(3)=4 since 3 = 6(1/2) = 4(3/4) = 2(3/4)+3(1/2) = 2(7/8)+3/4+1/2.

a(4)=7 since 4 = 8(1/2) = 5(1/2)+2(3/4) = 2(1/2)+4(3/4) = 3(1/2)+3/4+2(7/8) = 3(3/4)+2(7/8) = 1/2+4(7/8) = 2(15/16)+7/8+3/4+1/2.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A047913.

Sequence in context: A006745 A049284 A049285 * A128742 A107281 A006744

Adjacent sequences:  A002840 A002841 A002842 * A002844 A002845 A002846

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from John W. Layman (layman(AT)math.vt.edu), Nov 24 2001

Examples and offset corrected by Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Jan 06 2005

Further terms from Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Mar 13 2006

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