OFFSET
0,2
REFERENCES
Cornelius Lanczos, Applied Analysis, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1956, p. 518.
Theodore J. Rivlin, Chebyshev polynomials: from approximation theory to algebra and number theory, 2nd ed., Wiley, New York, 1990.
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (16,-96,256,-256).
FORMULA
G.f.: (1+4*x)/(1-4*x)^4.
E.g.f.: (3 + 48*x + 120*x^2 + 64*x^3)*exp(4*x)/3. - G. C. Greubel, Jul 22 2019
From Amiram Eldar, Oct 30 2025: (Start)
Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = 72 - 216*log(3) + 240*log(2).
Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n/a(n) = 192*arctan(1/2) - 72*(log(5/4)+1). (End)
MATHEMATICA
Table[4^(n-1)*Binomial[2*n+4, 3], {n, 0, 30}] (* G. C. Greubel, Jul 22 2019 *)
PROG
(PARI) vector(30, n, n--; 4^(n-1)*binomial(2*n+4, 3)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Jul 22 2019
(Magma) [4^(n-1)*Binomial(2*n+4, 3): n in [0..30]]; // G. C. Greubel, Jul 22 2019
(SageMath) [4^(n-1)*binomial(2*n+4, 3) for n in (0..30)] # G. C. Greubel, Jul 22 2019
(GAP) List([0..30], n-> 4^(n-1)*Binomial(2*n+4, 3)); # G. C. Greubel, Jul 22 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved
