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A003411 Losing initial positions in game: two players alternate in removing >= 1 stones; last player wins; first player may not remove all stones; each move <= 3 times previous move.
(Formerly M0561)
2
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 15, 21, 29, 40, 55, 76, 105, 145, 200, 276, 381, 526, 726, 1002, 1383, 1909, 2635, 3637, 5020, 6929, 9564, 13201, 18221, 25150, 34714, 47915, 66136, 91286, 126000, 173915, 240051, 331337, 457337, 631252, 871303, 1202640, 1659977 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

REFERENCES

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

LINKS

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..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) = a(n-1) + a(n-4), n >= 5; G.f.: (1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4)/(1-x-x^4).

MAPLE

A003411:=-(1+z+z**2+z**3+z**4)/(-1+z+z**4); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

MATHEMATICA

Join[{1}, LinearRecurrence[{1, 0, 0, 1}, {2, 3, 4, 6}, 80]] (* From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Feb 11 2012 *)

CROSSREFS

Presumably equals A048590(n-3) - 3, n>3.

Sequence in context: A006683 A014213 A064323 * A034081 A064660 A066806

Adjacent sequences:  A003408 A003409 A003410 * A003412 A003413 A003414

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,changed

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), R. K. Guy, Rodney W. Topor (rwt(AT)cit.gu.edu.au).

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