login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A097280
Perimeter of integer triangle (A001611(n), A001611(n+1), A001611(n+2)).
2
5, 7, 9, 13, 19, 29, 45, 71, 113, 181, 291, 469, 757, 1223, 1977, 3197, 5171, 8365, 13533, 21895, 35425, 57317, 92739, 150053, 242789, 392839, 635625, 1028461, 1664083, 2692541, 4356621, 7049159, 11405777, 18454933, 29860707, 48315637
OFFSET
0,1
FORMULA
a(n) = 2*A001611(n+2) + 1;
a(n) = a(n-1) + 2*A000045(n).
a(n) = A001611(n) + A001611(n+1) + A001611(n+2).
a(n) = 2*a(n-1) - a(n-3).
G.f.: -(5*x^2 + 3*x - 5) / ((x-1)*(x^2 + x - 1)). - Colin Barker, Apr 10 2013
a(n) = 2*Fibonacci(n+2) + 3. - Greg Dresden, Oct 10 2020
MATHEMATICA
Fibonacci[Range[2, 5! ]]*2+3 (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 19 2010 *)
LinearRecurrence[{2, 0, -1}, {5, 7, 9}, 40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 12 2015 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 04 2004
EXTENSIONS
Corrected by T. D. Noe, Oct 25 2006
STATUS
approved