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A105754
Lucas 8-step numbers.
14
1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, 127, 255, 502, 1003, 2003, 3999, 7983, 15935, 31807, 63487, 126719, 252936, 504869, 1007735, 2011471, 4014959, 8013983, 15996159, 31928831, 63730943, 127208950, 253913031, 506818327, 1011625183, 2019235407
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..2500 (terms 1..200 from T. D. Noe)
Martin Burtscher, Igor Szczyrba, Rafał Szczyrba, Analytic Representations of the n-anacci Constants and Generalizations Thereof, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 18 (2015), Article 15.4.5.
C. A. Charalambides, Lucas numbers and polynomials of order k and the length of the longest circular success run, The Fibonacci Quarterly, 29 (1991), 290-297.
Spiros D. Dafnis, Andreas N. Philippou, Ioannis E. Livieris, An Alternating Sum of Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers of Order k, Mathematics (2020) Vol. 9, 1487.
Tony D. Noe and Jonathan Vos Post, Primes in Fibonacci n-step and Lucas n-step Sequences, J. of Integer Sequences, Vol. 8 (2005), Article 05.4.4
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Lucas n-Step Number
FORMULA
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..8} a(n-k) for n > 0, a(0)=8, a(n)=-1 for n=-7..-1.
G.f.: -x*(1 + 2*x + 3*x^2 + 4*x^3 + 5*x^4 + 6*x^5 + 7*x^6 + 8*x^7)/( -1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5 + x^6 + x^7 + x^8 ). - R. J. Mathar, Jun 20 2011
MATHEMATICA
a={-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 8}; Table[s=Plus@@a; a=RotateLeft[a]; a[[ -1]]=s, {n, 50}]
CoefficientList[Series[-x*(1 + 2*x + 3*x^2 + 4*x^3 + 5*x^4 + 6*x^5 + 7*x^6 + 8*x^7 + 9*x^8)/(-1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5 + x^6 + x^7 + x^8 + x^9), {x, 0, 50}], x] (* G. C. Greubel, Dec 18 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=([0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0; 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0; 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0; 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1; 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]^(n-1)*[1; 3; 7; 15; 31; 63; 127; 255])[1, 1] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 14 2015
(PARI) x='x+O('x^30); Vec(-x*(1 + 2*x + 3*x^2 + 4*x^3 + 5*x^4 + 6*x^5 + 7*x^6 + 8*x^7 + 9*x^8)/(-1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5 + x^6 + x^7 + x^8 + x^9)) \\ G. C. Greubel, Dec 18 2017
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000032, A001644, A073817, A074048, A074584, A104621, A105755 (Lucas n-step numbers).
Sequence in context: A116082 A245269 A043747 * A116690 A267258 A305493
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,changed
AUTHOR
T. D. Noe, Apr 22 2005
STATUS
approved