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A094159 3 times hexagonal numbers: 3*n*(2*n-1). 17
0, 3, 18, 45, 84, 135, 198, 273, 360, 459, 570, 693, 828, 975, 1134, 1305, 1488, 1683, 1890, 2109, 2340, 2583, 2838, 3105, 3384, 3675, 3978, 4293, 4620, 4959, 5310, 5673, 6048, 6435, 6834, 7245, 7668, 8103, 8550, 9009, 9480, 9963, 10458, 10965, 11484 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Column 3 of A048790.

Sequence found by reading the line from 0, in the direction 0, 3,..., in the square spiral whose vertices are the generalized pentagonal numbers A001318. - Omar E. Pol, Sep 08 2011

REFERENCES

Dan Hoey, Bill Gosper and Rich Schroeppel, Discussions in Math-Fun Mailing list, circa Jul 13 1999.

LINKS

R. C. Schroeppel, A few mathematical experiments.

Index entries for sequences related to linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (3,-3,1).

FORMULA

a(n) = 6*n^2-3*n = 3*n*(2*n-1) = 3*A000384(n) [From Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Dec 11 2008]

a(n)=12*n+a(n-1)-9 (with a(0)=0) [From Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 16 2010]

G.f.: 3*x*(1+3*x)/(1-x)^3. - Bruno Berselli, Jan 21 2011

MATHEMATICA

s=0; lst={s}; Do[s+=n++ +3; AppendTo[lst, s], {n, 0, 7!, 12}]; lst [From Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Nov 16 2008]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000384, A048790.

3 times n-gonal numbers: A045943, A033428, A062741, A152773, A152751, A152759, A152767, A153783, A153448, A153875.

Essentially a bisection of A045943. - Omar E. Pol, Sep 17 2011

Sequence in context: A097989 A039700 A069147 * A138976 A064043 A085789

Adjacent sequences:  A094156 A094157 A094158 * A094160 A094161 A094162

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), May 05 2004

EXTENSIONS

More terms and Mathematica program Vladimir Orlovsky (4vladimir(AT)gmail.com), Nov 16 2008

Better definition, corrected offset and edited. - Omar E. Pol (info(AT)polprimos.com), Dec 11 2008

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