OFFSET
0,3
REFERENCES
G. M. Ziegler, Lectures on Polytopes, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1995, p. 311.
LINKS
Harvey P. Dale, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (8,-28,56,-70,56,-28,8,-1).
FORMULA
a(n) = binomial(n+1, 3)*(30*n^4-33*n^2+2)/70.
G.f.: (5*x^2+82*x^3+186*x^4+82*x^5+5*x^6)/(1-x)^8.
EXAMPLE
For n=3, the vertices are (9,5,4) and (8,7,3) of norm 122.
MATHEMATICA
Table[Binomial[n+1, 3] (30n^4-33n^2+2)/70, {n, 0, 30}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[ {8, -28, 56, -70, 56, -28, 8, -1}, {0, 0, 5, 122, 1022, 5122, 18847, 56332}, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 25 2020 *)
PROG
(PARI) {a(n) = polcoeff( (5*x^2 + 82*x^3 + 186*x^4 + 82*x^5 + 5*x^6) / (1 - x)^8 + x * O(x^n), n)} /* Michael Somos, Mar 04 2012 */
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Michael Somos, Jun 10 2002
STATUS
approved