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A099779 Ceiling of (1/2)+(1/(2^{n+1})*Sum_{i=0..n-1}(C(n,i)*C(n,i+1)). 0
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 13, 23, 44, 83, 159, 306, 590, 1144, 2220, 4317, 8408, 16399, 32023, 62601, 122498, 239924, 470304, 922612, 1811217, 3558035, 6993883, 13755529, 27068914, 53294747, 104979547, 206880514, 407866454, 804432711, 1587177283 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

2,2

REFERENCES

Radoslav Derka, Vladimir Buzek, Artur Ekert, Universal Algorithm for Optimal Estimation of Quantum States from Finite Ensembles, Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 1571-1575

MAPLE

a:=n->ceil((1/2)+(1/(2^(n+1))*sum(binomial(n, i)*binomial(n, i+1), i=0..n-1))): seq(a(n), n=2..36); (Deutsch)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A031149 A096723 A137495 * A000690 A049876 A049795

Adjacent sequences:  A099776 A099777 A099778 * A099780 A099781 A099782

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Sibasish Ghosh, Simone Severini (simoseve(AT)gmail.com), Nov 12 2004

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Feb 16 2005

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