OFFSET
0,2
REFERENCES
J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, Copernicus Press, NY, 1996, p. 54.
Elena Deza and Michel Marie Deza, Figurate numbers, World Scientific Publishing (2012), page 206.
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (17, -136, 680, -2380, 6188, -12376, 19448, -24310, 24310, -19448, 12376, -6188, 2380, -680, 136, -17, 1).
FORMULA
MAPLE
b:=17: a:=n->(n+1)^b-n^b: seq(a(n), n=0..18); # Muniru A Asiru, Feb 28 2018
MATHEMATICA
Table[(n+1)^17-n^17, {n, 0, 20}] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 22 2011 *)
Differences[Range[0, 20]^17] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 21 2019 *)
PROG
(Magma) [(n+1)^17-n^17: n in [0..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 22 2011
(PARI) for(n=0, 20, print1((n+1)^17 - n^17, ", ")) \\ G. C. Greubel, Feb 27 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms added by G. C. Greubel, Feb 27 2018
STATUS
approved
