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A059977 Binomial(n+2,2)^4. 3
1, 81, 1296, 10000, 50625, 194481, 614656, 1679616, 4100625, 9150625, 18974736, 37015056, 68574961, 121550625, 207360000, 342102016, 547981281, 855036081, 1303210000, 1944810000, 2847396321, 4097152081, 5802782976, 8100000000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Number of 4-dimensional cage assemblies.

See Chap. 61, "Hyperspace Prisons", of C. Pickover's book "Wonders of Numbers" for full explanation of "cage numbers."

REFERENCES

Clifford Pickover, "Wonders of Numbers, Adventures in Mathematics, Mind and Meaning," Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 325.

LINKS

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n=0,...,1000

C. A. Pickover, "Wonders of Numbers, Adventures in Mathematics, Mind and Meaning," Zentralblatt review

FORMULA

L(n) = ((n^m)(n + 1)^m)/(2^m) where m is the dimension, which in this case is 4.

O.g.f.: -(1+72*x+603*x^2+1168*x^3+603*x^4+72*x^5+x^6)/(-1+x)^9. - R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Mar 31 2008

a(n) = A000217(n+1)^4. - R. J. Mathar, Dec 13 2011

MAPLE

with (combinat):seq(mul(stirling2(n+1, n), k=1..4), n=1..24); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Dec 16 2007

MATHEMATICA

m = 4; Table[ ( (n^m)(n + 1)^m )/(2^m), {n, 1, 30} ]

PROG

(Other) SAGE:[stirling_number2(n+1, n)^4for n in xrange(1, 25)]# [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 14 2009]

(PARI) { for (n=0, 1000, write("b059977.txt", n, " ", ((n + 1)*(n + 2)/2)^4); ) } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 30 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A059827, A059860.

Sequence in context: A205729 A183807 A016768 * A116205 A110921 A203650

Adjacent sequences:  A059974 A059975 A059976 * A059978 A059979 A059980

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Mar 06 2001

EXTENSIONS

Better definition from Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), May 23 2006

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