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A365205
Centered pentachoral numbers.
2
1, 21, 121, 421, 1101, 2401, 4621, 8121, 13321, 20701, 30801, 44221, 61621, 83721, 111301, 145201, 186321, 235621, 294121, 362901, 443101, 535921, 642621, 764521, 903001, 1059501, 1235521, 1432621, 1652421, 1896601, 2166901, 2465121, 2793121, 3152821
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
A pentachoral number is a centered figurate number that represents a pentachoron, which is a four-dimensional regular polytope composed of 5 cells.
One of the 6 centered regular polichoral (centered pentachoral, centered hexadecachoral, centered octachoral, centered icositetrachoral, centered hexacosichoral and centered hecatonicosachoral) numbers.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Figurate Number.
Wikipedia, 5-cell.
FORMULA
a(n) = 5*n^4/2 - 5*n^3 + 15*n^2/2 - 5*n + 1.
G.f.: x*(1 + 16*x + 26*x^2 + 16*x^3 + x^4)/(1 - x)^5. - Stefano Spezia, Aug 26 2023
MATHEMATICA
Table[5/2*n^4 - 5*n^3 + 15/2*n^2 - 5*n + 1, {n, 1, 100}]
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A044353 A044734 A325484 * A361699 A200888 A179441
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved