OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
These numbers are known to occur at least six times in Pascal's triangle.
The next term is approximately 3.537 * 10^204 and is in the b-file.
The numbers of digits in a(n), n >= 1, are given in A100022.
LINKS
Hugo Pfoertner, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..5
A. I. Shirshov, On the equation C(n, m) = C(n+1, m-1), chapter 10 in: Kvant Selecta: Algebra and Analysis, I, ed. S. Tabachnikov, Am. Math. Soc., 1999, pp. 83-86
D. Singmaster, Repeated binomial coefficients and Fibonacci numbers, Fibonacci Quarterly, 13 (1975), 295-298.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pascal's Triangle
FORMULA
MAPLE
a := proc(n) local a, b, s, p; s:= 1+sqrt(5); p:=16^n;
a := 4-2*p*s^(-4*n-1)+(s+2)*s^(4*n-1)/p:
b := 1+p*((s-2)^(1-4*n)/2-s^(-1-4*n)*(2+s)):
GAMMA(a/5)/(GAMMA(b/5)*GAMMA(1+(a-b)/5)) end:
digits := [1, 4, 29, 205, 1412]: A := n -> round(evalf(a(n), digits[n]+10)):
A(4); # Peter Luschny, Jul 15 2017
MATHEMATICA
Table[Binomial[Fibonacci[2k]Fibonacci[2k+1], Fibonacci[2k-1] Fibonacci[2k]-1], {k, 4}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 18 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) A090162(n)=binomial(fibonacci(2*n+1)*fibonacci(2*n), fibonacci(2*n-1)*fibonacci(2*n)-1) \\ M. F. Hasler, Feb 17 2023
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,nice,changed
AUTHOR
Eric W. Weisstein, Nov 23 2003 and Wolfdieter Lang, Dec 01 2003
STATUS
approved