OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
LINKS
Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Antti Karttunen, C-program for computing the initial terms of this sequence
Paveł Szabłowski, Beta distributions whose moment sequences are related to integer sequences listed in the OEIS, Contrib. Disc. Math. (2024) Vol. 19, No. 4, 85-109. See p. 100.
FORMULA
G.f.: (1+4x-(1+2x)sqrt(1-4x^2))/(2x). - Paul Barry, Apr 11 2005
a(2*j+i) = i*C(2*j,j)/(1+j), i=1..2, j >= 0. - Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 29 2007
D-finite with recurrence: (n+1)*a(n) - 2*a(n-1) + 4(3-n)*a(n-2) = 0. - R. J. Mathar, Dec 17 2011, corrected by Georg Fischer, Feb 13 2020
MAPLE
seq(seq(binomial(2*j, j)/(1+j)*i, i=1..2), j=0..19); # Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 29 2007
MATHEMATICA
a[0] = 1; a[n_] := If[EvenQ[n], 2*CatalanNumber[n/2 - 1], CatalanNumber[(n-1)/2]]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 40}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 24 2013 *)
PROG
(Scheme) (define (A089408 n) (cond ((zero? n) 1) ((even? n) (* 2 (A000108 (-1+ (/ n 2))))) (else (A000108 (/ (-1+ n) 2)))))
(Python)
from sympy import catalan
def a(n): return 1 if n==0 else 2*catalan(n//2 - 1) if n%2==0 else catalan((n - 1)//2) # Indranil Ghosh, May 23 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Antti Karttunen, Nov 29 2003
STATUS
approved