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A005654 Number of bracelets (turn over necklaces) with n red, 1 pink and n-1 blue beads; also reversible strings with n red and n-1 blue beads; also next-to-central column in Losanitsch's triangle A034851.
(Formerly M1640)
2
1, 2, 6, 19, 66, 236, 868, 3235, 12190, 46252, 176484, 676270, 2600612, 10030008, 38781096, 150273315, 583407990, 2268795980, 8836340260, 34461678394, 134564560988, 526024917288, 2058358034616 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

Ascher, Marcia; Mu torere: an analysis of a Maori game. Math. Mag. 60 (1987), no. 2, 90-100.

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

LINKS

F. Ruskey, Necklaces, Lyndon words, De Bruijn sequences, etc.

N. J. A. Sloane, Classic Sequences

Index entries for sequences related to bracelets

FORMULA

a(n)= (1/2) (C(2n-1, n)+C(n-1, [ n/2 ])).

PROG

(PARI) a(n)= (1/2) *(C(2*n-1, n)+C(n-1, n\2)) where C(n, k)=if(k<0|k>n, 0, n!/k!/(n-k)!)

CROSSREFS

A005654(n)=A034851(2n-1, n-1)

Sequence in context: A047016 A150084 A150085 * A150086 A150087 A150088

Adjacent sequences:  A005651 A005652 A005653 * A005655 A005656 A005657

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Sequence extended and description corrected by Christian G. Bower (bowerc(AT)usa.net) Formula from Michael Somos.

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