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A027649 a(n) = 2*(3^n) - 2^n. 40
1, 4, 14, 46, 146, 454, 1394, 4246, 12866, 38854, 117074, 352246, 1058786, 3180454, 9549554, 28665046, 86027906, 258149254, 774578834, 2323998646, 6972520226, 20918609254, 62757924914, 188277969046 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Poly-Bernoulli numbers B_n^(k) with k=-2.
Binomial transform of A007051, if both sequences start at 0. Binomial transform of A000225(n+1). - Paul Barry, Mar 24 2003
Euler expands (1-z)/(1-5z+6z^2) and finds the general term. Section 226 of the Introductio indicates that he could have written down the recursion relation: a(n) = 5 a(n-1)-6 a(n-2). - V. Frederick Rickey (fred-rickey(AT)usma.edu), Feb 10 2006
Let R be a binary relation on the power set P(A) of a set A having n = |A| elements such that for every element x, y of P(A), xRy if x is a subset of y or y is a subset of x. Then a(n) = |R|. - Ross La Haye, Dec 22 2006
With regard to the comment by Ross La Haye: For proper subsets see A056182. - For nonempty subsets see A091344. - For nonempty proper subsets see a(n+1) in A260217. - Manfred Boergens, Aug 02 2023
If x, y are two n-bit binary strings then a(n) gives the number of pairs (x,y) such that XOR(x, y) = ABS(x - y). - Ramasamy Chandramouli, Feb 15 2009
Equals row sums of the triangular version of A038573. - Gary W. Adamson, Jun 04 2009
Inverse binomial transform of A085350. - Paul Curtz, Nov 14 2009
Related to the number of even a's in a nontrivial cycle (should one exist) in the 3x+1 Problem, where a <= floor(log_2(2*(3^n) - 2^n)). The value n correlates to the number of odds in such a nontrivial cycle. See page 1288 of Crandall's paper. Also, this relation gives another proof that the number of odds divided by the number of evens in a nontrivial cycle is bounded by log 2 / log 3 (this observation does not resolve the finite cycles conjecture as the value could be arbitrarily close to this bound). However, the same argument gives that log 2 / log 3 is less than or equal to the number of odds divided by the number of evens in a divergent sequence (should one exist), as log 2 / log 3 is the limit value for a cycle of an arbitrarily large length, where the length is given by the value n. - Jeffrey R. Goodwin, Aug 04 2011
Row sums of Riordan triangle A106516. - Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 09 2015
Number of restricted barred preferential arrangements having 3 bars in which the sections are all restricted sections such that (for fixed sections i and j) section i or section j is empty. - Sithembele Nkonkobe, Oct 12 2015
This is also row 2 of A281891: for n >= 1, when consecutive positive integers are written as a product of primes in nondecreasing order, a factor of 2 or 3 occurs in n-th position a(n) times out of every 6^n. - Peter Munn, May 18 2017
Also row sums of A124929. - Omar E. Pol, Jun 15 2017
This is the sum of A318921(n) for n in the range 2^(k+1) to 2^(k+2)-1. See A318921 for proof. - N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 25 2018
a(n) is also the number of acyclic orientations of the complete bipartite graph K_{2,n}. - Vincent Pilaud, Sep 15 2020
a(n-1) is also the number of n-digit numbers whose largest decimal digit is 2. - Stefano Spezia, Nov 15 2023
REFERENCES
Leonhard Euler, Introductio in analysin infinitorum (1748), section 216.
LINKS
Taylor Brysiewicz, Holger Eble, and Lukas Kühne, Enumerating chambers of hyperplane arrangements with symmetry, arXiv:2105.14542 [math.CO], 2021.
R. E. Crandall, On the 3x+1 problem, Math. Comp., 32 (1978) 1281-1292.
Shalosh B. Ekhad, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, A Meta-Algorithm for Creating Fast Algorithms for Counting ON Cells in Odd-Rule Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01796 [math.CO], 2015; see also the Accompanying Maple Package.
Shalosh B. Ekhad, N. J. A. Sloane, and Doron Zeilberger, Odd-Rule Cellular Automata on the Square Grid, arXiv:1503.04249 [math.CO], 2015.
K. Imatomi, M. Kaneko, and E. Takeda, Multi-Poly-Bernoulli Numbers and Finite Multiple Zeta Values, J. Int. Seq. 17 (2014) # 14.4.5
Ken Kamano, Sums of Products of Poly-Bernoulli Numbers of Negative Index, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 15 (2012), #12.1.3.
Masanobu Kaneko, Poly-Bernoulli numbers, Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, 9 no. 1 (1997), Pages 221-228.
Takao Komatsu, Some recurrence relations of poly-Cauchy numbers, J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl., (2019) Vol. 12, Issue 12, 829-845.
Ross La Haye, Binary Relations on the Power Set of an n-Element Set, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 12 (2009), Article 09.2.6.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Sierpinski Sieve
FORMULA
G.f.: (1-x)/((1-2*x)*(1-3*x)).
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) + 2^(n-1), with a(0) = 1.
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n, k)*(2^(k+1) - 1). - Paul Barry, Mar 24 2003
Partial sums of A053581. - Paul Barry, Jun 26 2003
Main diagonal of array (A085870) defined by T(i, 1) = 2^i - 1, T(1, j) = 2^j - 1, T(i, j) = T(i-1, j) + T(i-1, j-1). - Benoit Cloitre, Aug 05 2003
a(n) = A090888(n, 3). - Ross La Haye, Sep 21 2004
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n+2, k+1)*Sum_{j=0..floor(k/2)} A001045(k-2j). - Paul Barry, Apr 17 2005
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} Sum_{j=0..n} binomial(n,j)*binomial(j+1,k+1). - Paul Barry, Sep 18 2006
a(n) = A166060(n+1)/6. - Philippe Deléham, Oct 21 2009
a(n) = 5*a(n-1) - 6*a(n-2), a(0)=1, a(1)=4. - Harvey P. Dale, Apr 22 2011
a(n) = A217764(n,2). - Ross La Haye, Mar 27 2013
For n>0, a(n) = 3 * a(n-1) + 2^(n-1) = 2 * (a(n-1) + 3^(n-1)). - J. Conrad, Oct 29 2015
for n>0, a(n) = 2 * (1 + 2^(n-2) + Sum_{x=1..n-2} Sum_{k=0..x-1} (binomial(x-1,k)*(2^(k+1) + 2^(n-x+k)))). - J. Conrad, Dec 10 2015
MAPLE
a(n, k):= (-1)^n*sum( (-1)^'m'*'m'!*Stirling2(n, 'm')/('m'+1)^k, 'm'=0..n);
seq(a(n, -2), n=0..30);
MATHEMATICA
Table[2(3^n)-2^n, {n, 0, 30}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[ {5, -6}, {1, 4}, 31] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 22 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=2*(3^n)-2^n \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 16, 2011
(PARI) Vec((1-x)/((1-2*x)*(1-3*x)) + O(x^50)) \\ Altug Alkan, Oct 12 2015
(Magma) [2*(3^n)-2^n: n in [0..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jul 17 2011
(Haskell)
a027649 n = a027649_list !! n
a027649_list = map fst $ iterate (\(u, v) -> (3 * u + v, 2 * v)) (1, 1)
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 09 2013
(SageMath) [2*(3^n - 2^(n-1)) for n in (0..30)] # G. C. Greubel, Aug 01 2022
CROSSREFS
Row n = 2 of array A099594.
Also occurs as a row, column, diagonal or as row sums in A038573, A085870, A090888, A106516, A217764, A281891.
Sequence in context: A029868 A030267 A026290 * A330796 A049221 A081670
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Better formulas from David W. Wilson and Michael Somos
Incorrect formula removed by Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 18 2010
Duplications (due to corrections to A numbers) removed by Peter Munn, Jun 15 2017
STATUS
approved

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