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A067771 Number of vertices in Sierpinski triangle of order n. 12
3, 6, 15, 42, 123, 366, 1095, 3282, 9843, 29526, 88575, 265722, 797163, 2391486, 7174455, 21523362, 64570083, 193710246, 581130735, 1743392202, 5230176603, 15690529806, 47071589415, 141214768242, 423644304723, 1270932914166 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

This sequence represents another link from the product factor space Q X Q / {(1,1), (-1, -1)} to Sierpinski's triangle. The first "link" found was to sequence A048473. - Creighton Dement (creighton.k.dement(AT)uni-oldenburg.de), Aug 05 2004

REFERENCES

Peter Wessendorf and Kristina Downing, personal communication.

LINKS

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..600

C. Lanius, Fractals

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Sierpinski Graph

FORMULA

a(n) = 3 + 3^1 + 3^2 + 3^3 + 3^4 +...+ 3^n= 3 + sum(k=1..n, 3^n).

a(1) = 3, a(n)=a(n-1)+3^n. a(n)=(3/2)*(1+3^n). - Zak Seidov, Mar 19 2007

a(n) = +4*a(n-1) -3*a(n-2)

G.f.: 3*(1-2*x)/((1-x)*(1-3*x)). [Colin Barker, Jan 10 2012]

MATHEMATICA

a=2; lst={}; Do[a=a*3-3; AppendTo[lst, a], {n, 0, 5!}]; lst [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Dec 25 2008]

PROG

(MAGMA) [(3/2)*(1+3^n): n in [0..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jun 20 2011

CROSSREFS

This is 3*A007051. Cf. A048473.

Cf. A003462, A007051, A034472, A024023 [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Dec 25 2008]

Sequence in context: A140824 A001433 A005368 * A056382 A028401 A005655

Adjacent sequences:  A067768 A067769 A067770 * A067772 A067773 A067774

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Martin Wessendorf (martinw(AT)mail.ahc.umn.edu), Feb 09 2002

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Benoit Cloitre (benoit7848c(AT)orange.fr), Feb 22 2002

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