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A136017 36n^2 - 1. 5
35, 143, 323, 575, 899, 1295, 1763, 2303, 2915, 3599, 4355, 5183, 6083, 7055, 8099, 9215, 10403, 11663, 12995, 14399, 15875, 17423, 19043, 20735, 22499, 24335, 26243, 28223, 30275, 32399, 34595, 36863, 39203, 41615, 44099, 46655, 49283, 51983 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

A061037=0,5,3,21,2,45,15,77,6,117,35,: a(n)= A061037(12n+10)=(6n-1)*(6n+1)=36*n^2-1. From Balmer spectrum of hydrogen. [From Paul Curtz (bpcrtz(AT)free.fr), Sep 25 2008]

Sum_{k>=1} (-1)^(k+1)/a(k) = (Pi-3)/6 [From Jaume Oliver Lafont (joliverlafont(AT)gmail.com), Oct 20 2009]

LINKS

Edward Everett Withford, Pell Equation

Wolfram MathWorld, Pell Equation

X. Gourdon and P. Sebah, Collection of series for Pi

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

FORMULA

O.g.f.: x*(-35-38*x+x^2)/(-1+x)^3 = 1-35/(-1+x)-108/(-1+x)^2-72/(-1+x)^3 . - R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Dec 12 2007

MATHEMATICA

Table[36n^2 - 1, {n, 1, 100}]

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=36*n^2-1 [From Jaume Oliver Lafont (joliverlafont(AT)gmail.com), Oct 20 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A088878, A023208, A136016.

Sequence in context: A171473 A158586 A157286 * A048628 A048629 A133534

Adjacent sequences:  A136014 A136015 A136016 * A136018 A136019 A136020

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Artur Jasinski (grafix(AT)csl.pl), Dec 10 2007

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