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A006007 4-dimensional analogue of centered polygonal numbers: a(n) = n(n+1)*(n^2+n+4)/12.
(Formerly M3865)
11
0, 1, 5, 16, 40, 85, 161, 280, 456, 705, 1045, 1496, 2080, 2821, 3745, 4880, 6256, 7905, 9861, 12160, 14840, 17941, 21505, 25576, 30200, 35425, 41301, 47880, 55216, 63365, 72385, 82336, 93280, 105281, 118405, 132720, 148296, 165205, 183521 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

REFERENCES

S. M. Losanitsch, Die Isomerie-Arten bei den Homologen der Paraffin-Reihe, Chem. Ber. 30 (1897), 1917-1926.

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

D.-N. Verma (dnverma(AT)math.tifr.res.in), Towards Classifying Finite Point-Set Configurations, preprint, 1997.

LINKS

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..710

FORMULA

G.f.: (1+x^2)/(1-x)^5.

a(n) = 2*binomial(n + 2, 4) + binomial(n + 1, 2).

a(n) = A061316(n)/3 = A061315(n, 3) = sqrt(A061318(n)-A061316(n)).

a(0)=0, a(1)=1, a(2)=5, a(3)=16, a(4)=40, a(n)=5*a(n-1)- 10*a(n-2)+10*a(n-3)-5*a(n-4)+a(n-5) [From Harvey P. Dale, Sep 30 2011]

MATHEMATICA

f[n_]:=n^3; lst={}; s=0; Do[s+=(f[n]+f[n+1]+f[n+2]); AppendTo[lst, s/9], {n, 0, 6!}]; lst [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Jan 03 2009]

Table[2Binomial[n+2, 4]+Binomial[n+1, 2], {n, 0, 40}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{5, -10, 10, -5, 1}, {0, 1, 5, 16, 40}, 40] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Sep 30 2011 *)

PROG

(MAGMA) [n*(n+1)*(n^2+n+4)/12: n in [0..60]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Apr 26 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A003215, A000537, A000578, A005898, A027602 [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Jan 03 2009]

Sequence in context: A011863 A027085 A099452 * A001753 A202087 A073459

Adjacent sequences:  A006004 A006005 A006006 * A006008 A006009 A006010

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Apr 24 2001

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