OFFSET
1,3
REFERENCES
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992.
L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 254, gives this as number of ways to color faces of a cube using at most n colors, but the formula is incorrect - see A047780.
LINKS
V. Meally, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, N.D.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (7, -21, 35, -35, 21, -7, 1).
MAPLE
A006550:=(-1-3*z-8*z**2-10*z**3-14*z**4+6*z**5)/(z-1)**7; # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
MATHEMATICA
Table[n+8Binomial[n, 2]+30Binomial[n, 3]+62Binomial[n, 4]+75Binomial[n, 5]+ 30Binomial[n, 6], {n, 0, 40}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{7, -21, 35, -35, 21, -7, 1}, {0, 1, 10, 57, 234, 770, 2136}, 40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 24 2011 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Jud McCranie found this error and gave the correct version of this sequence (A047780).
STATUS
approved