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A006979 a(n)=number of compositions of n in which the maximum part size is 5.
(Formerly M1410)
1
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 5, 12, 28, 63, 139, 303, 653, 1394, 2953, 6215, 13008, 27095, 56201, 116143, 239231, 491326, 1006420, 2056633, 4193706, 8534653, 17337764, 35162804, 71205504, 143990366, 290795624, 586566102, 1181834852, 2378701408 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

5,7

COMMENTS

a(n) is also the number of binary sequences of length n-1 in which the longest run of 0's is exactly 4. Example: a(7) = 5 because there are 5 binary sequences of length 6 in which the longest run of 0's is exactly 4: 000010, 000011, 010000, 110000, 100001. - Geoffrey Critzer, Nov 07 2008

REFERENCES

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

J. L. Yucas, Counting special sets of binary Lyndon words, Ars Combin., 31 (1991), 21-29.

FORMULA

G.f.: x^5 / ((1-x-x^2-x^3-x^4) * (1-x-x^2-x^3-x^4-x^5)). - Alois P. Heinz, Oct 29 2008

MAPLE

a:= n-> (Matrix(9, (i, j)-> if i=j-1 then 1 elif j=1 then [2, 1, 0, -1, -3, -4, -3, -2, -1][i] else 0 fi)^n) [1, 6]: seq (a(n), n=5..40); # Alois P. Heinz, Oct 29 2008

CROSSREFS

Cf. A048003.

Sequence in context: A118898 A111586 A192657 * A019301 A006980 A045623

Adjacent sequences:  A006976 A006977 A006978 * A006980 A006981 A006982

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms and better definition from Alois P. Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Oct 29 2008

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