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A141411 Defined in comments. 2
3, 1, 31, 28, 365, 514, 4388, 8220, 53871, 122284, 673222, 1748055, 8535397, 24383499, 109449848, 334783855, 1415768769, 4548229589, 18434398665, 61345927764, 241210652738, 823296868656, 3167642169823, 11010462627756, 41708741708554, 146886286090602 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

Given any sequence {u(i), i >= 0} we define a family of polynomials by P(0,x) = u(0), P(n,x) = u(n) + x*Sum_{ i=0..n-1 } (u(i)*P(n-i-1, x). Then we set a(n) = (P(n,-1)+P(n,1))/2.

For the present exanmple we take {u(i)} to be 3,1,4,1,5,9,... (A000796).

REFERENCES

P. Curtz, Gazette des Mathematiciens, 1992, 52, p.44.

P. Flajolet, X. Gourdon and B. Salvy, Gazette des Mathematiciens, 1993, 55, pp.67-78 .

MAPLE

u:= proc(n) Digits:= max(n+10);

trunc (10* frac (evalf (Pi*10^(n-1))))

end:

P:= proc(n) option remember; local i, x;

if n=0 then u(0)

else unapply

(expand (u(n) +x *add (u(i) *P(n-i-1)(x), i=0..n-1)), x)

fi

end:

a:= n-> (P(n)(1)+P(n)(-1))/2:

seq (a(n), n=0..30);

CROSSREFS

See A130620 for another version.

Sequence in context: A188110 A120066 A046979 * A016481 A047815 A095844

Adjacent sequences:  A141408 A141409 A141410 * A141412 A141413 A141414

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Paul Curtz (bpcrtz(AT)free.fr), Jun 18 2007

EXTENSIONS

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 26 2009

Corrected and extended with Maple program by Alois Heinz (heinz(AT)hs-heilbronn.de), Sep 06 2009

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