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A098925 Distribution of the number of ways for a child to climb a staircase having r steps (one step or two steps at a time). 6
1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 1, 4, 10, 6, 1, 1, 10, 15, 7, 1, 5, 20, 21, 8, 1, 1, 15, 35, 28, 9, 1, 6, 35, 56, 36, 10, 1, 1, 21, 70, 84, 45, 11, 1, 7, 56, 126, 120, 55, 12, 1, 1, 28, 126, 210, 165, 66, 13, 1, 8, 84, 252, 330, 220, 78, 14, 1, 1, 36, 210, 462, 495, 286, 91 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,5

COMMENTS

Note that the row sums in the example yield the terms of Fibonacci's sequence(A000045). Were the child capable of taking three steps at a time, the row sums of the resulting table would add to the tribonacci sequence (A000073) etc.

Essentially the same as A030528 (without the 0's), where one can find additional information. - Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Mar 29 2005

Triangle T(n,k), with zeros omitted, given by (0, 1, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...) DELTA (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...) where DELTA is the operator defined in A084938. - DELEHAM Philippe, Feb 08 2012

FORMULA

a(n) = abs(A092865)

O.g.f.:  1/(1-yx-yx^2) -Geoffrey Critzer, Dec 27 2011.

EXAMPLE

There are 13 ways for the child to climb a staircase with six steps since the partitions of 6 into 1's and 2's are 222, 2211, 21111 and 111111; and these can be permuted in 1 + 6 + 5 + 1 = 13 ways.

The general cases can be readily shown by displacing Pascal's Triangle (A007318) as follows:

1

..1

..1..1

.....2..1

.....1..3..1

........3..4..1

........1..6..5..1

Triangle (0, 1, -1, 0, 0, 0, ...) DELTA (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...) begins :

1

0, 1

0, 1, 1

0, 0, 2, 1

0, 0, 1, 3, 1

0, 0, 0, 3, 4, 1

0, 0, 0, 1, 6, 5, 1 - DELEHAM Philippe, Feb 08 2012

MAPLE

T:=(n, k)->sum((-1)^(n+i)*binomial(n, i)*binomial(i+k+1, 2*k+1), i=0..n): 1, 1, seq(seq(T(n, k), k=floor(n/2)..n), n=1..16); (Deutsch)

MATHEMATICA

nn = 15; f[list_] := Select[list, # > 0 &];

Map[f, CoefficientList[Series[1/(1 - y x - y x^2), {x, 0, nn}], {x, y}]] // Flatten  (*Geoffrey Critzer, Dec 27 2011*)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000045, A000073, A000078, A007318, A092865.

Cf. A030528.

All of A011973, A092865, A098925, A102426, A169803 describe essentially the same triangle in different ways. - N. J. A. Sloane, May 29 2011.

Sequence in context: A035667 A102426 A092865 * A052920 A089141 A170820

Adjacent sequences:  A098922 A098923 A098924 * A098926 A098927 A098928

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,changed

AUTHOR

Alford Arnold (Alford1940(AT)aol.com), Oct 19 2004

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Mar 29 2005

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