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A005252 Sum_{k=0..floor(n/4)} binomial(n-2k,2k).
(Formerly M1048)
11
1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 17, 27, 44, 72, 117, 189, 305, 493, 798, 1292, 2091, 3383, 5473, 8855, 14328, 23184, 37513, 60697, 98209, 158905, 257114, 416020, 673135, 1089155, 1762289, 2851443, 4613732, 7465176, 12078909, 19544085, 31622993 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,5

COMMENTS

The Twopins/t sequence (see Guy).

Number of closed walks of length n at a vertex of the graph with adjacency matrix [1,1,0,0;0,0,0,1;1,0,0,0;0,0,1,1] - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Mar 15 2004

a(n+3) = number of n-bit sequences that avoid both 010 and 0110. Example: for n=3, there are 8 3-bit sequences and only 010 fails to qualify, so a(6)=7. - David Callan (callan(AT)stat.wisc.edu), Mar 25 2004

a(n) = A173021(2^(n-1) - 1) for n>0. [From Reinhard Zumkeller (reinhard.zumkeller(AT)gmail.com), Feb 07 2010]

REFERENCES

R. Austin and R. K. Guy, Binary sequences without isolated ones, Fib. Quart., 16 (1978), 84-86.

John H. Conway and R. K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, Copernicus Press, p. 205 of first edition.

R. K. Guy, ``Anyone for Twopins?,'' in D. A. Klarner, editor, The Mathematical Gardner. Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, Boston, 1981, pp. 2-15.

V. E. Hoggatt, Jr. and M. Bicknell, Diagonal sums of generalized Pascal triangles, Fib. Quart., 7 (1969), 341-358, 393.

MacKay, Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, CUP, 2003, p251.

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=0..500

INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 424

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

Second differences give sequence shifted twice - E. L. Tan, Univ. Phillipines.

G.f.: (1-x)/((1-x-x^2)(1-x+x^2)); a(n)=Fib(n+1)/2+A010892(n)/2; a(n)=(((1+sqrt(5))/2)^(n+1)/sqrt(5)-((1-sqrt(5))/2)^(n+1)/sqrt(5)+cos(pi*n/3)+sin(pi*n/3)/sqrt(3))/2. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Mar 15 2004

a(n) = 2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-4); a(0) = a(1) = a(2) = a(3) = 1 . - DELEHAM Philippe (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), May 01 2006

MAPLE

A005252:=(-1+z)/(z**2-z+1)/(z**2+z-1); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

ZL:=[S, {a = Atom, b = Atom, S = Prod(X, Sequence(Prod(X, X))), X = Sequence(b, card >= 2)}, unlabelled]: seq(combstruct[count](ZL, size=n), n=2..40); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 26 2008

MATHEMATICA

Table[Sum[Binomial[n-2k, 2k], {k, 0, Floor[n/4]}], {n, 0, 50}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{2, -1, 0, 1}, {1, 1, 1, 1}, 50] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Dec 09 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

First differences of A024490.

Sequence in context: A117276 A035295 A006999 * A023430 A023429 A023428

Adjacent sequences:  A005249 A005250 A005251 * A005253 A005254 A005255

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from (and formula corrected by) James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Feb 06 2000

Definition revised by N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 16 2009 at the suggestion of Alessandro Orlandi.

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