OFFSET
0,5
REFERENCES
J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, 1958 (Chap 4, Problem 22).
LINKS
Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..502
Lev Glebsky, Melany Licón, Luis Manuel Rivera, On the number of even roots of permutations, arXiv:1907.00548 [math.CO], 2019.
T. Koda, M. Sato, Y. Tskegahara, 2-adic properties for the numbers of involutions in the alternating groups, J. Algebra Appl. 14 (2015), no. 4, 1550052 (21 pages).
FORMULA
E.g.f.: 1/2*exp(x + 1/2*x^2 + 1/4*x^4 + 1/8*x^8) + 1/2*exp(x - 1/2*x^2 - 1/4*x^4 - 1/8*x^8).
PROG
(PARI) my(x='x+O('x^30)); Vec(serlaplace(1/2*exp(x + 1/2*x^2 + 1/4*x^4 + 1/8*x^8) + 1/2*exp(x - 1/2*x^2 - 1/4*x^4 - 1/8*x^8))) \\ Michel Marcus, Jun 18 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Vladeta Jovovic, Apr 14 2001
STATUS
approved