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A010684 Period 2: repeat (1,3); offset 0. 32
1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Hankel transform is [1,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...] . - Philippe DELEHAM (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), Mar 29 2007

Submitted A153643=2,3,3,5,7,13,23,. A153643(n+1)-2*A153643(n)=-a(n). [From Paul Curtz (bpcrtz(AT)free.fr), Dec 30 2008]

Binomial transform give [1,4,8,16,32,64,...] (A151821(n+1)). [From Philippe DELEHAM (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), Sep 17 2009]

Continued fraction expansion of (3+sqrt(21))/6. [From Klaus Brockhaus (klaus-brockhaus(AT)t-online.de), May 04 2010]

LINKS

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,1).

FORMULA

a(n)=2-(-1)^n. G.f. (1+3x)/((1-x)(1+x)). E.g.f. 2exp(x)-exp(-x) - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Apr 29 2003

a(n)=3*(n mod 2)+(n+1) mod 2 - Paolo P. Lava (paoloplava(AT)gmail.com), Oct 20 2006

a(n)=3^(n mod 2) [From Jaume Oliver Lafont (joliverlafont(AT)gmail.com), Mar 27 2009]

a(n)=7^n mod 4. [From Vincenzo Librandi, Feb 07 2011]

MAPLE

[seq (modp((2*n+1), 4), n=0..80)]; - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Nov 30 2006

PROG

(Other) sage: [power_mod(3, n, 8)for n in xrange(0, 81)] # [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Nov 24 2009]

(MAGMA) [7^n mod 4: n in [0..80]]; [From Vincenzo Librandi, Feb 07 2011]

(PARI) a(n)=1+n%2*2 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 28 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A112030, A112033, A176014 (decimal expansion of (3+sqrt(21))/6).

Sequence in context: A066056 A153284 A112030 * A176040 A125768 A111742

Adjacent sequences:  A010681 A010682 A010683 * A010685 A010686 A010687

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

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