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A005565 Number of walks on square lattice.
(Formerly M5087)
1
20, 75, 189, 392, 720, 1215, 1925, 2904, 4212, 5915, 8085, 10800, 14144, 18207, 23085, 28880, 35700, 43659, 52877, 63480, 75600, 89375, 104949, 122472, 142100 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

REFERENCES

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

LINKS

R. K. Guy, Catwalks, Sandsteps and Pascal Pyramids, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 3 (2000), #00.1.6

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.

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-10,10,-5,1).

FORMULA

1/4*(n^4+14n^3+69n^2+136n+80). G.f.: (20-25x+14x^2-3x^3)/(1-x)^5. - Ralf Stephan, Apr 23 2004

a(n)= binomial(n+4,2)^2- binomial(n+4,1)^2. [From Gary Detlefs, Nov 22 2011]

MAPLE

seq(add (k^3-n^2, k =0..n), n=4..28 ); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Aug 26 2007

A005565:=(-20+25*z-14*z**2+3*z**3)/(z-1)**5; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=(n^4+14*n^3+69*n^2+136*n)/4+20 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Nov 22 2011

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A002292 A010008 A000529 * A066126 A083127 A002609

Adjacent sequences:  A005562 A005563 A005564 * A005566 A005567 A005568

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

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