A071283 Numerators of Peirce sequence of order 4.

0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 3, 1, 5, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 4, 8, 6, 2, 9, 7, 10, 5, 8, 11, 6, 12, 9, 3, 13, 10, 14, 7, 11, 15, 8, 16, 12, 4, 17, 13, 18, 9, 14, 19, 10, 20, 15, 5, 21, 16, 22, 11, 17, 23, 12, 24, 18, 6, 25, 19, 26, 13, 20, 27, 14, 28, 21, 7, 29, 22, 30, 15, 23, 31

Offset

0,7

References

R. L. Graham, D. E. Knuth and O. Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2nd ed. 1998, p. 151.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..79.

Formula

Conjectures from Colin Barker, Mar 29 2017: (Start)

G.f.: x^4*(x^19 + x^18 + x^17 + 2*x^16 + 2*x^15 + 3*x^14 + x^13 + 3*x^12 + 4*x^11 + 2*x^10 + 3*x^9 + 2*x^8 + x^7 + 2*x^6 + x^5 + x^4)/(x^20 - 2*x^10 + 1).

a(n) = 2*a(n-10) - a(n-20) for n>19.

(End)

Example

The Peirce sequences of orders 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 begin:
0/1 1/1 2/1 3/1 4/1 5/1 6/1 7/1 ...
0/2 0/1 1/2 2/2 1/1 3/2 4/2 2/1 ... (numerators are A009947)
0/2 0/3 0/1 1/3 1/2 2/3 2/2 3/3 ...
0/2 0/4 0/3 0/1 1/4 1/3 2/4 1/2 ...
0/2 0/4 0/5 0/3 0/1 1/5 1/4 1/3 ...

Crossrefs

Cf. A071281-A071288.

Sequence in context: A112779 A366631 A029201 * A172986 A364642 A029826

Adjacent sequences: A071280 A071281 A071282 * A071284 A071285 A071286

Keyword

nonn,frac,easy

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 11 2002

Extensions

More terms from Reiner Martin, Oct 15 2002

Status

approved