OFFSET
1,3
LINKS
J.P. Allouche and M. Mendes France, Stern-Brocot polynomials and power series, arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0211 [math.NT], 2012. - From N. J. A. Sloane, May 10 2012
FORMULA
Let M = an infinite lower triangular matrix with (1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 0,...) in every column, shifted down twice for columns k >1. Then the sequence is the left-shifted vector of Lim_{n->inf} M^n.
G.f.: x*Product_{k>=0} (1 - x^(2^k) - x^(2^(k + 1))). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Aug 30 2017
EXAMPLE
a(6) = 2 = (-1)*a(3) = (-1)*(-2). a(7) = 3 = (-1)*a(3) + a(4) = (-1)*(-2) + 1.
MAPLE
A177219 := proc(n)
local npr ;
npr := floor(n/2) ;
if n = 1 then
1;
elif type(n, 'even') then
-procname(npr) ;
else
-procname(npr)+procname(npr+1) ;
end if;
end proc: # R. J. Mathar, Mar 14 2014
MATHEMATICA
a[1] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = If[EvenQ[n], -a[n/2], -a[(n-1)/2]+a[(n-1)/2+1]];
Array[a, 80] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 24 2017 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
sign,easy
AUTHOR
Gary W. Adamson, May 04 2010
STATUS
approved