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A005429 Ap\*'ery numbers: n^3*C(2n,n).
(Formerly M2169)
7
0, 2, 48, 540, 4480, 31500, 199584, 1177176, 6589440, 35443980, 184756000, 938929992, 4672781568, 22850118200, 110079950400, 523521630000, 2462025277440, 11465007358860, 52926189069600, 242433164404200, 1102772230560000, 4984806175188840, 22404445765690560 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

REFERENCES

S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, Section 1.6.3.

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

A. J. van der Poorten, A proof that Euler missed...Apery's proof of the irrationality of zeta(3), Math. Intelligencer 1 (1978/1979), 195-203.

I. J. Zucker, On the series $ Sum\sp \infty\sb {k=1}(\sp{2k}\sb {\; k})\sp {-1}k\sp{-n}$ and related sums, J. Number Theory 20 (1985), no. 1, 92-102.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..200

M. Kondratiewa and S. Sadov, Markov's transformation of series and the WZ method

FORMULA

Sum_{ n >= 1} (-1)^(n+1) / a(n) = 2 zeta(3) / 5.

MAPLE

with(combinat):for n from 0 to 22 do printf(`%d, `, n^2*sum(binomial(2*n, n), k=1..n)) od: - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 13 2007

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002736, A005258, A005259, A005429, A005430.

Sequence in context: A101362 A058090 A051252 * A035606 A157057 A013523

Adjacent sequences:  A005426 A005427 A005428 * A005430 A005431 A005432

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com)

EXTENSIONS

Entry revised by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Apr 06 2004

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