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A024283 Expansion of tan(x)^2/2. 3
0, 1, 8, 136, 3968, 176896, 11184128, 951878656, 104932671488, 14544442556416, 2475749026562048, 507711943253426176, 123460740095103991808, 35125800801971979943936, 11559592093904798920736768 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

Number of cyclically reverse alternating permutations of length 2n+1, cf. A024255. - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), May 20 2007

REFERENCES

L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 259, T(n,2).

FORMULA

G.f.: (1/2)*(tan(z))^2 = (z^2/(1-z^2)/2)*( 1 +2*z^2/( (z^2-1)*(G(0)-2*z^2)), G(k) = (k+2)*(2*k+3)-2*z^2+2*z^2*(k+2)*(2*k+3)/G(k+1); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Dec 15 2011

EXAMPLE

(tan x)^2 = x^2 + 2/3*x^4 + 17/45*x^6 + 62/315*x^8 + ...

MATHEMATICA

Tan[ x ]^2/2 (* Even Part *)

CROSSREFS

A009764.

Cf. A009764, A000182. A diagonal of A059419.

Sequence in context: A132869 A036915 A049211 * A134053 A136472 A145404

Adjacent sequences:  A024280 A024281 A024282 * A024284 A024285 A024286

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

R. H. Hardin (rhhardin(AT)att.net)

EXTENSIONS

Extended and signs tested 03/97.

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