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A003011 Number of permutations of up to n kinds of objects, where each kind of object can occur at most two times.
(Formerly M3071)
5
1, 3, 19, 271, 7365, 326011, 21295783, 1924223799, 229714292041, 35007742568755, 6630796801779771, 1527863209528564063, 420814980652048751629, 136526522051229388285611 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

E.g.f. A(x)=y satisfies 0=(2x^3+2x^2)y''+(-3x^3+4x-1)y'+(x^3-x^2-2x+3)y. - Michael Somos Mar 15 2004

Number of ways to use the elements of {1,..,k}, 0<=k<=2n, once each to form a sequence of n (possibly empty) sets, each having at most 2 elements. - Bob Proctor, Apr 18 2005

REFERENCES

J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, p. 17.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

Index entries for related partition-counting sequences

FORMULA

a(n)n=a(n-1)(2n^3-n^2+n+1)+a(n-2)(-3n^3+4n^2+2n-3)+a(n-3)(n^3-2n^2-n+2).

MATHEMATICA

Table[nn=2n; a=1+x+x^2/2!; Total[Range[0, nn]!CoefficientList[Series[a^n, {x, 0, nn}], x]], {n, 0, 15}]   (*Geoffrey Critzer, Dec 23 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=local(A); if(n<0, 0, A=(1+x+x^2/2)^n; sum(k=0, 2*n, k!*polcoeff(A, k)))

CROSSREFS

a(n) = Sum[C(n, k)*A105749(k), 0<=k<=n]

Replace "sequence" by "collection" in comment: A105748.

Replace "sets" by "lists" in comment: A082765.

Sequence in context: A054590 A069344 A173799 * A143597 A115705 A136171

Adjacent sequences:  A003008 A003009 A003010 * A003012 A003013 A003014

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Aug 18 2002

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