login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.
Logo

Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A141522 a(n)=a(n-1)*a(n-2)+a(n-1)*a(n-3). 0
0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 12, 72, 1152, 96768, 118444032, 11598039613440, 1374840894208868352000, 15945621994910596019667697926144000, 21922693387137438627357958684974264478793362424463360000 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,5

REFERENCES

Martin Gardner, Mathematical Circus,Randon House, New York, 1981,p 165

http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/software/Matlab2004.zip

PROG

MatLab program:

function y=fib(n)

%Generates running geometric numbers( second kind)

fz(1)=0; fz(2)=1; fz(3)=1;

for k=4:n

fz(k)=fz(k-1)*(fz(k-2)+fz(k-3));

end

y=fz(n);

Contribution from Cino Hilliard (hillcino368(AT)hotmail.com), Apr 29 2009: (Start)

(PARI) /*Pari script that avoids arrays */

geom(n) =

{

local(a=0, b=1, c=1, d);

print1(a", "b", "c", ");

for(x=1, n-3,

d=(a+b)*c;

print1(d", ");

a=b; b=c; c=d;

)

}

(End)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A078919 A085864 A060935 * A114903 A038054 A003180

Adjacent sequences:  A141519 A141520 A141521 * A141523 A141524 A141525

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Matt Wynne (matwyn(AT)verizon.net), Aug 11 2008

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
Recent Additions | More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement .

Last modified February 16 21:51 EST 2012. Contains 205978 sequences.