login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A055591
a(n) = a(n-1)+3^a(n-1).
2
0, 1, 4, 85, 35917545547686059365808220080151141317128
OFFSET
0,3
FORMULA
a(n) = A055591(n-1)+A055590(n)
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 4+3^4 = 4+81 = 85
MATHEMATICA
NestList[#+3^#&, 0, 4] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 18 2012 *)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A223955 A116330 A055776 * A055764 A163279 A130268
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Henry Bottomley, May 26 2000
STATUS
approved