OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Values of n such that a regular polygon with n sides can be formed by tying knots in a strip of paper. - Robert A. J. Matthews (rajm(AT)compuserve.com)
These polygons fill in many of the gaps left by the Greeks, who were restricted to compass and ruler. Specifically, they make possible construction of the regular 7-sided heptagon, 9-sided nonagon, 11-gon and 13-gon. The 14-gon becomes the first to be impossible by either ruler, compass or knotting.
Continued fraction expansion of 2/(exp(2)-7). - Thomas Baruchel, Nov 04 2003
Pisot sequence T(5,7). - David W. Wilson
Sun conjectures that any member of this sequence is of the form m^2 + m + p, where p is prime. Blanco-Chacon, McGuire, & Robinson prove that the primes of this form have density 1. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 20 2019
REFERENCES
F. V. Morley, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., Jun 1923
F. V. Morley, "Inversive Geometry" (George Bell, 1933; reprinted Chelsea Publishing Co. 1954)
LINKS
Ivan Blanco-Chacon, Gary McGuire, and Oisin Robinson, Primes of the form n^2+n+p have density 1 (2017)
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
Z. W. Sun, On sums of primes and triangular numbers, Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory 1:1 (2009), pp. 65-76.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,-1).
FORMULA
a(n) = 2*n + 3.
G.f.: x*(5-3*x)/(1-2*x+x^2). a(n) = 2*a(n-1)-a(n-2). - Colin Barker, Jan 31 2012
MATHEMATICA
Range[5, 131, 2] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 11 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=2*n+3 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 10 2016
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Entry revised by N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 26 2007
STATUS
approved