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A005492 From expansion of falling factorials.
(Formerly M3495)
2
4, 15, 52, 151, 372, 799, 1540, 2727, 4516, 7087, 10644, 15415, 21652, 29631, 39652, 52039, 67140, 85327, 106996, 132567, 162484, 197215, 237252, 283111, 335332, 394479, 461140, 535927, 619476, 712447, 815524, 929415, 1054852, 1192591 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

4,1

REFERENCES

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

E. G. Whitehead, Jr., Stirling number identities from chromatic polynomials, J. Combin. Theory, A 24 (1978), 314-317.

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

a(n) = 5a(n-1) - 10a(n-2) + 10a(n-3) - 5a(n-4) + a(n-5).

n^4 - 16n^3 + 102n^2 - 300n + 340.

MAPLE

A005492:=-(15-23*z+41*z**2-13*z**3+4*z**4)/(z-1)**5; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation. Gives sequence except for the leading 4.]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A196835 A055218 A107307 * A003013 A117202 A137213

Adjacent sequences:  A005489 A005490 A005491 * A005493 A005494 A005495

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com)

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Pab Ter (pabrlos(AT)yahoo.com), May 09 2004

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